An American non-profit policy organization announced recently the launch of an app that allows social media companies and Internet sites to “quickly remove” jihadist, ISIS-related online propaganda from their platforms. The Counter Extremism Project...

CEP President Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security advisor to President George W. Bush, joins "CBS This Morning" to weigh in on whether ISIS is to blame for the deadly blasts in Istanbul's major airport and the Turkish security officials' quick...

Since 2008, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has offered to share with ISPs a list of hash values that correspond to known child abuse images. That list, which was eventually coupled with Microsoft’s own PhotoDNA...

This article in the Spanish publication S ilicon, describes software developed by CEP that can automatically detect and remove extremist content from platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

On June 28, 2016, CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discussed the terrorist attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport with host Chris Matthews.

The "Islamic State" group (IS) has made extraordinary use of social media to recruit followers and inspire attacks. Facebook and Twitter say they are working hard to shut down extremists' profiles and remove offensive content. But IS still has a huge...

On “Morning Joe” Thursday, they had a guest named Dr. Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College. It was a brief segment with Dr. Farid, but he touched on something I’d never even considered. One of the problems with radicalization...

AMERICAN officials referred to Anwar al-Awlaki as a senior recruiter for al-Qaeda. After being connected to numerous terrorist attacks, in 2011 he became one of the first United States citizens to be killed by an American drone. Yet Awlaki’s online...

Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College, has developed a software algorithm that he claims will allow platforms like Facebook and Twitter to identify content created by the Islamic State and similar extremist groups and their supporters...

The web has become one of the most powerful tools today used by terrorist networks like the Islamic State, or ISIS. Two researchers — physicist Neil Johnson and computer scientist Hany Farid — are among the many to come out with new technologies...