Security Deteriorating In West Africa As Terror Groups End Alliance

Recent attacks by Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara—local affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS—against one another is punctuating a security breakdown in West Africa, a region already challenged by...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in June 2020

Following is the June installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly update on the ongoing attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. The May update can be read here , the April update here , and a full background and...

Tech & Terrorism: Major Corporations Boycott Facebook Ad Spending Over Content Moderation Mishandling

Iconic consumer brands have begun pledging to temporarily or indefinitely halt advertisements on Facebook due to its consistent mishandling of extremist content, hateful rhetoric, and divisive information on its site. The boycott by more than 100...

CEP Webinar: “Regulating Against Extremist Content Online – Discussion on The Upcoming EU Digital Services Act”

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to join us for a webinar discussion on the upcoming European regulation of extremist content online in the context of the Digital Services Act. This 90-minute webinar will be conducted in English via...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), says it's unclear why Telegram does not take action against these specific violent White supremacist channels. 'The fact that they do not take action, despite these...

"'We have gotten to a tipping point,' said Hany Farid, a professor at University of California-Berkeley. 'The Trump administration, Covid, Black Lives Matter, the ugliness social media is surfacing -- I think people finally realize this is not OK...

"Her comments came as the CEP published a report called 'The Creation, Weaponisation and Detection of Deep Fakes'. "The report’s author, Professor Hany Farid from the University of California at Berkeley, explained that deep fakes, which see famous...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid: "In five years, I expect us to have long since reached the boiling point that leads to reining in an almost entirely unregulated technology sector to contend with how technology has been weaponized against...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Releases A New Video Titled “The Epic Battles Of Attrition 3” And Neo-Nazi Telegram Channel Removed

(New York, N.Y) - 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, 10 or more neo-Nazi and white supremacist...

CEP-KAS Webinar: On The Threat of Deep Fakes To Democracy And Society

On May 29, 2020, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a webinar and launch event for a new study, "On the Threat of Deep Fakes to Democracy and Society". The study was written by CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Dr. Hany...