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Dezember 12, 2016

CEP Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller discusses the importance of the White House relationship with the CIA and the impact it has on Americans.

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Dezember 12, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller is interviewed by Al-Jazeera (Arabic) regarding the problem of online radicalization and the announcement by Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter that in 2017 they would work together to identify extremist content.

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Dezember 12, 2016

“Faced with copious evidence of radicalisation in prisons, a British government report from August recommended that particularly ex­tremist prisoners be ‘held in spe­cialist units and given effective de­radicalisation interventions’. Asked whether...

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Dezember 12, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the CIA's contention that Russia attempted to interfere with the recent American election and the type of intelligence necessary to reach such a conclusion.

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Dezember 8, 2016

HBO’s VICE News Tonight program detailed the hashing technology that CEP developed with Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid, which is capable of detecting and removing extremist images, video, and audio content from Internet...

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Dezember 7, 2016

Just one day before President Barack Obama touted efforts to undermine the online reach of jihadist groups four tech giants — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google’s YouTube — announced that they will collaborate on a database of manually tagged...

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Dezember 6, 2016

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google, have announced they are going to work together to identify extremist content. Hany Farid helped to build that technology. He's a computer scientist at Dartmouth and an advisor to the...

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Dezember 5, 2016

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Monday announced they had joined forces in an attempt to curb explicit terrorist imagery online. The move follows criticism from Brussels that big US social media groups have made insufficient effort to...

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Dezember 5, 2016

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have pledged to work together to identify and remove extremist content on their platforms through an information-sharing initiative. Earlier this year Hany Farid, the computer scientist who helped develop...

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Dezember 1, 2016

According to press reports Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s terror rampage was memorialized in a Facebook posting in which the terrorist cited ISIS as his motivation, and the YouTube sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki as his inspiration. Last June I issued an urgent...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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