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April 15, 2019

Sudan’s President and Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood-Linked National Congress Party Ousted by Military

CEP today released updated resources on Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP ), the successor organization to the Muslim Brotherhood -affiliated National Islamic Front (NIF ). Recently deposed Sudanese President and NCP chairman Omar Hassan Ahmed al...

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April 12, 2019

CEP Commends Speaker Pelosi for Waving in “New Era” for Tech Industry Regulation

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the following today in response to comments made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding regulation of the tech industry, specifically, changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA ). In an interview...

Press Release

April 11, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: Presence of Banned Neo-Nazi Content Demonstrates YouTube’s Failure to Enforce its Own Rules

This week, CEP revealed that supporters of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (AWD ) have re-uploaded AWD’s videos yet again on YouTube. Despite the tech giant banning AWD’s channel more than a year ago, YouTube failed to prevent the upload of...

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April 9, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban

During today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, when asked what Google was doing to stop far-right propaganda from spreading on YouTube, Counsel for Free Expression and Human Rights Alexandria Walden stated that for “borderline” content, YouTube...

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April 8, 2019

Facebook & Google Must Take Responsibility for Proliferation of Extremist Content Online

CEP today called on members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary to use their Tuesday hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism to hold the tech industry accountable for its failure to permanently remove extremist and terrorist content in...

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April 8, 2019

LIBE Committee Passes Critical Vote on the Terror Content File

CEP issued statements today following the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on the draft report on Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David...

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April 4, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: CEP Urges Facebook to Halt Lobbying Efforts to Stymie Government Oversight and Regulation

Last weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , called for governments and regulators to become involved in censoring harmful content online. However, Mr. Zuckerberg’s call was intentionally heavy on idealism and rhetoric, and light on specifics. Once...

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April 4, 2019

CEP Statement Applauding Australia Parliament’s Passage of Legislation Regulating Extremist Content Online

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued a statement today commending the Parliament of Australia for passing l egislation regulating social media companies in the wake of the New Zealand shootings, that read in part: “Australia’s pioneering...

Press Release

April 3, 2019

How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a first step toward...

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April 1, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Videos From New Zealand Shooting Remain Online

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Today’s release shows that two weeks after the New Zealand shootings, the infamous video is still being...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

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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