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Juni 27, 2019

House Homeland Security Committee Takes Aim at Tech Industry’s Failure to Halt Spread of Online Extremist Content

CEP commended the House Committee on Homeland Security for holding a hearing on social media companies' efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. The hearing was called in the wake of March’s New Zealand mosque shootings—in which a...

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Juni 26, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Will be Ripe for Misuse

This month, Facebook announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency , the Libra, by mid-2020. Already, regulators in both Europe and the United States are expressing concern about its public policy implications . Cryptocurrency , already one of the...

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Juni 21, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Abdullah al-Faisal’s Ties to Extremists

Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. In announcing his indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Faisal’s lectures, websites, and...

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Juni 20, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid in Finale: “Companies Have to Start Taking More Responsibility for What They’ve Created”

CEP today released the finale of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the video, titled “ Responsibility ,” Dr. Farid calls on tech companies to take more...

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Juni 18, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Groups in Europe Threaten Violence

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’s edition details the 27 websites used by ISIS to spread violent propaganda videos and how the...

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Juni 17, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Ahmad Musa Jibril’s Ties to Extremists

Ahmad Musa Jibril is an Islamist preacher well-known for being an influential jihadist voice in Syria and for having radicalized Khuram Shazad Butt, one of three London Bridge attackers who killed eight people and wounded almost 50 others on June 3...

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Juni 13, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: Tech Companies Need “A Fundamental Change” to Tackle Extremist Content

CEP today released the eighth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled " Pressure Points ," Dr. Farid calls for a collective effort...

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Juni 10, 2019

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists & Neo-Nazis Continue Thriving on YouTube

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’s edition urges YouTube to strictly enforce its new policy for removing extremist videos, in...

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Juni 7, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists

For more than 40 years, William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries has served as a “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists around the world. The book has directly inspired at least three terror attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City...

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Juni 6, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Do We Want to Reward the Bad Behavior of [Tech] Companies?”

CEP today released the seventh of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , an incoming professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled “ Products & Consumers ,” Dr. Farid urges end users to question the...

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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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