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Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: White Supremacy Extremists Continue Leveraging Facebook As Unite The Right 2 Arrives
Sunday, August 12 marks the scheduled return of Unite The Right 2, a sequel to last year’s rally, where a vehicle attack carried out by a white supremacist killed one woman and injured at least 30 others. Previously, the Counter Extremism Project...
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ISIS Attacks Carry on, as Regulators Worldwide Grapple With Terrorism
On July 29, a group of Westerners cycling through Tajikistan were attacked, resulting in four killed, including two Americans, a Swiss citizen and a Dutch national. Three more were injured in the attack, which ISIS quickly claimed credit for. The...
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Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: With Charlottesville Anniversary Approaching, Far-Right Extremism Maintains Hold on Facebook
August marks the first anniversary of the tragic events in Charlottesville – and despite all the uproar that followed, Facebook’s promises to take more action against hate groups have rung hollow. The Guardian reports that the same actors involved in...
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CEP Statement On Revelations of Google’s Plan to Relaunch Censored Search Engine in China
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement in response to reports about Google’s plans to relaunch a censored version of its search engine in China to meet that authoritarian government’s demands to limit free speech that read in part:...
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ICYMI: CEP Study Documents YouTube’s Failure to Effectively and Permanently Remove Extremist Content
CEP, to better understand the prevalence of ISIS videos on YouTube, conducted a three month study using a web crawler and its own video-matching technology, eGLYPH. CEP searched for the presence on YouTube of a small sample of 229 previously...
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CEP Statement on Tech Companies’ Transparency Reports Required Under German Law and European Union Proposal To Regulate Extremism Online
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement in response to tech giants releasing figures on how much hateful content they blocked or removed under Germany’s Network Enforcement Act as well as reports that the European Union is planning to...
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ISIS Maximizes Online Propaganda To Target “Marginalized & Vulnerable”
The shooting in Toronto this week demonstrated the extent to which ISIS has mastered the use of social media and the Internet to spread its propaganda. Although authorities have stated that there was no known terrorist involvement for the incident...
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Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: Facebook’s Content Moderation “PR Problem” Hits Its Pockets
Facebook released its second quarter financial results this week and the results were not good. Its stock prices were down approximately 20 percent, and its depressed long-term revenue growth and profit outlook was described as “shocking.” As Wired...
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FRIDAY IN MIAMI: NEW REPORT ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA TO BE DISCUSSED BY ASYMMETRICA AND COUNTER EXTREMISM PROJECT
MIAMI – On Friday, July 27, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Asymmetrica will host a discussion in Miami on a new report about transnational organized crime in Latin America’s Tri-Border Area in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, commonly known...
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CEP Report: YouTube’s Ongoing Failure to Remove ISIS Content
CEP today released a new study that finds YouTube’s efforts to proactively remove extremist content from its platform are failing. The report calls into question YouTube’s claims of being able to remove ISIS videos quickly and effectively. Using a...
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