Instead of coming up with new clickable content and stories to discredit terrorist propaganda, why not make the radicals' toxic material much harder to find on the internet? Better yet, why not just remove it altogether from the web? Dr. Hany Farid...

WordPress.com has hosted hundreds of links to extremist videos, as well as propaganda pages from the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (Isil), according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US anti-terror think...

On October 31, 2017, a 29-year-old Uzbek man drove a rented pickup truck into people on a bicycle path in New York City, killing eight people and injuring 12. The perpetrator, Sayfullo Saipov, was an avid fan of ISIS propaganda. According to the...

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace discusses the importance of Google/YouTube's decision to remove thousands of lectures and sermons of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, and CEP's multi-year campaign to pressure the tech giant to take action.

Ambassador Mark D. Wallace says removal of Anwar al-Awlaki's sermons and lectures on YouTube will save lives, but it still remains too easy to find extremist and terrorist propaganda on the Internet and social media platforms.

With the Islamic State group almost defeated on the ground in Iraq and Syria and its territorial hold dramatically reduced, the terror group and its sympathizers continue to demonstrate their ability to weaponize the internet in an effort to...

YouTube has removed thousands of propaganda videos from late al-Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki amid mounting pressure from governments and counterterrorism advocates. "It's a watershed moment on the question of whether we're going to allow the...

YouTube recently removed some 50,000 videos of a deceased radical American imam and al-Qaeda propagandist. Despite being killed in a US drone strike in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki continued to inspire Islamic terror through online videos. “It’s a watershed...