Extremist Content Online: Content Glorifying The Christchurch Terrorist Attack Still Available On Twitter

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located multiple posts glorifying the...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "While regulators and policymakers dither and try to decide if cryptocurrencies have a future in the economy, early adopters, including terrorists and violent extremists, are exploiting a law...

"The leaders of these active clubs also maintain connections with several pre-existing far-right groups, some of whom have perpetrated hate crimes. 'Violence is the underlying feature of all of this,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst for the...

"In 2022, Twitter found itself under pressure to cancel accounts linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. At first it resisted, telling the Counter Extremism Project that @igrciran hadn’t violated its policies, even though it had tweeted a...

"Separately, a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit NGO that monitors the flow of funds for terrorism and extremism, found that the illegal wildlife trade is experiencing a post-pandemic resurgence." [Translated from...

"'The group’s ideology blends Islamism and Palestinian nationalism and seeks the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River...Hamas’s preferred methods include suicide bombings...

"'The group’s ideology blends Islamism and Palestinian nationalism and seeks the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River...The group also receives financial and military support...

"'The group’s ideology blends Islamism and Palestinian nationalism and seeks the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River...Hamas’s preferred methods include suicide bombings...

CEP Report Examines Ties Between Right-Wing Extremism And Organized Crime

Last month, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a report authored by CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann along with 11 other researchers from CEP and other institutions in the U.S. and Europe exploring the connections between right-wing...

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann writes: "The investigators usually do not uncover the transnational right-wing extremist networks. Because instead of right-wing extremism, the focus is on financially motivated crimes. Drug trafficking instead...