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CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS This Morning
Following the March 15, 2019 attack on two mosques in New Zealand, CEP President Frances Townsend discusses whether the suspect was known to authorities and the role of social media.
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CEP President Fran Townsend on CBSN Live
CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the New Zealand attacker's white supremacist manifesto.
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CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky on Inside Edition
CEP's senior research analyst Josh Lipowsky highlights the role social media plays in the spread of extremist propaganda, following March 15, 2019 attacks on two mosques in New Zealand.
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CEP CEO Mark Wallace on NBC Nightly News
CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace talks tech platform failure to stop spread of New Zealand mosque attacks video.
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CEP CEO Ambassador Mark Wallace on Bloomberg Technology
In the wake of a terrorist attack at two New Zealand mosques in Christchurch, CEP's Mark Wallace speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Technology about tech platforms' failure to prevent spread of shooting video and extremist content.
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CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid on Newsy
CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid speaks with Willie James Inman of Newsy about a U.S. data privacy law that may be on the horizon.
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CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid on CBS News
CEP Senior Adviser and computer science professor Dr. Hany Farid spoke with Vladimir Duthiers of CBS News on CEP's challenge to Facebook: Rein in Extremist Content
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CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton on WTOP
On February 6, 2019, CEP senior advisor Lucinda Creighton spoke with J.J. Green on WTOP's The Hunt. Creighton many convicted terrorists are going to get of out prison soon, creating a whole new problem for the U.S.
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CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS This Morning
On January 30, 2019, CEP President Fran Townsend discussed the Worldwide Threat Assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.
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CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton on WTOP
On January 23, 2019, senior adviser to the CEP Lucinda Creighton spoke on WTOP's The Hunt with J.J. Green. Creighton said complacency, online radicalization and tech companies are a big part of the problem.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.