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Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists Celebrate Jersey City Shooting on Telegram
CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, white supremacists on Telegram celebrated the Jersey City shooting, in which six people were...
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U.N. Panel Warns of Deteriorating Libyan Security Situation
This week, U.N. experts released a report detailing the deteriorating security situation in Libya. The report states that Libya is not only targeted as “one of the main axes” of ISIS’s future operations, but that the country will continue to be...
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Al-Shabab Hotel Attack in Mogadishu Kills Five, Injures 11
In Mogadishu, Somali security forces ended a seven-hour attack at the SYL hotel on December 10 that left three civilians and two soldiers dead and 11 people injured, including two members of Somali security forces. The terror group al-Shabab claimed...
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CEP Highlights Need for Tougher Measures on Anniversary of Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack
On the anniversary of the 2018 Christmas market attack in Strasbourg, France, the leading expert on prison radicalization and CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson is warning that further action is needed to prevent future terrorist attacks. Five people...
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Extremist Content Online: ISIS Moves to Hoop Messenger and TamTam Following Telegram Takedowns
CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, ISIS supporters established a presence on the messenger platforms Hoop Messenger and TamTam...
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Over 100 Anwar Al-Awlaki Videos Found on YouTube
Report Marks Second Time Awlaki’s Propaganda Re-uploaded to Platform (New York, N.Y.) - On December 5, The Times (London) reported its discovery of over 100 radicalizing extremist videos from notorious al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki on Google...
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Tech & Terrorism: YouTube’s 60 Minutes Interview Demonstrates Tech’s Continued Double-Talk
Last Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki focused in part on how the Google-owned platform polices hate speech, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other content expressly prohibited by the company’s terms...
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London Bridge Attacker Directly Tied to Radical Cleric Anjem Choudary
On November 29, 2019, Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist on early release from prison, murdered two people and wounded three others in a knife attack near the London Bridge. In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, it was revealed that Khan was part...
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Extremist Content Online: U.K. Neo-Nazi Active on Online Forum Fascist Forge Arrested
CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, a neo-Nazi British teenager was convicted for plotting attacks on synagogues in the United...
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Extremism Spotlight: Arrested ISIS Supporter in Chicago Radicalized by Abdullah Faisal
On November 15, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Jason Brown , a.k.a. Abdul Ja’Me , was arrested for attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. According to the DOJ affidavit , Brown was radicalized in prison by...
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