CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with Radio 24 in Italy about fears that coronavirus is leading to a surge in calls to violence by extremists.

Hezbollah Commander Awaits Trial For Terror Financing In Austria

On March 15, 2020, a Hezbollah commander was arraigned in Carinthia, Austria, on the charge of financing terrorism. The commander, having lived in Carinthia for 13 years, stands accused of working for Hezbollah in Lebanon and financing operations for...

“'Extreme right-wing accelerationist and neo-Nazi Telegram chats and channels have increased their frequency of calling for violence related to the coronavirus since the president’s declaration of a national emergency on March 13,' said Joshua Fisher...

"'The extreme right is fractured right now in terms of their support for President Trump,' said Joshua Fisher Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project. 'Many who originally supported him are disappointed with how the last few years have...

Atomwaffen Division Claims to Have Disbanded

In an approximately three-minute audio recording released on Soundcloud on March 14, James Mason, a long-term member of the American neo-Nazi scene and author of Siege, announced that the neo-Nazi extremist group Atomwaffen Division (AWD) was...

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists Blame Jews, Israel & China For COVID-19

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. This week, white supremacists on Telegram channels and chan-style...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on his work in image forensics and deepfakes: "After all, says Farid, 'if we did not have a delivery mechanism for deepfakes in the form of social media, this would not be a threat that we are concerned about.'"

"The Christchurch attack was live-streamed on Facebook for 17 minutes, and copies of the footage were later shared on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram. Millions of copies of the footage were later taken down but many remain...

"Researchers at the Counter Extremism Project have identified at least 14 different websites where footage of the Christchurch terror attack can be accessed, a year after the shootings took place, Marc Daalder reports."

"Millions of copies of the footage were later taken down but despite that videos of the attack still remain online, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said in a statement on Saturday. CEP, a private group that monitors and reports extremist content...