CEP Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Norway Attacks

It has been 10 years since Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by detonating a car bomb in central Oslo, before shooting dead 69 people attending a summer camp on the island of Utøya. The attacks represented the deadliest violence in Norway...

U.K. Lifts Public Speaking Ban On Radical Islamic Cleric Anjem Choudary

Restrictions preventing radical British cleric Anjem Choudary from speaking in public were lifted on Monday following the expiration of government-imposed conditions on his release. Choudary, co-founder of the now-banned extremist network al...

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Propaganda Promoting Violence Located On DeviantArt

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. CEP researchers located over a dozen neo-Nazi propaganda accounts on...

"In June of last year, the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives recommended designating KSS as a terrorist group. The recommendation also included other PMF factions: the Badr Organization, Kata’ib al-Imam Ali, Liwa Abu al...

CEP Web Event Highlights | First Half of 2021

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has conducted more than 10 web events in 2021 as part of its mission to inform the public, media, academia, business leaders, and policymakers about the dangers posed by extremist ideologies and movements, as well...

CEP Tech & Terrorism release published: "In early July, Facebook began testing a pilot program on its platform asking some users if they had been “exposed to harmful extremist content” or “concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist.”...

U.K. To Ban White Supremacist Group The Base

On Monday, U.K. Home Secretary Ptiti Patel announced plans to ban The Base, a U.S.-based neo-Nazi, white supremacist network, pending approval of the order by the British parliament. The terrorist proscription could go into effect later this week and...

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook’s “Redirect Initiative” Puts Onus On Users To Identify Extremism

In early July, Facebook began testing a pilot program on its platform asking some users if they had been “exposed to harmful extremist content” or “concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist.” Called the “Redirect Initiative,” the pop...

CEP resources referenced and report quoted: "The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), in a study funded by Germany’s foreign office, concluded in November 2020 that 'the 21st century, and the period after 2014 in particular, saw the emergence of a new...

World Shield Against IEDs Needed Now

The frequency of terrorist attacks around the world in last decade has repeatedly demonstrated the undeniable danger and deadliness of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), or “homemade” bombs. Over the last 10 years, IEDs have caused at least 171,732...