CEP President Fran Townsend discusses classifying the El Paso Shooting as a case of domestic terrorism.

CEP Advisory Board Member August Hanning, the former director of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, comments on the growing threat from extremist ideologies in this article in the German daily newspaper Bild.

Tech & Terrorism: FTC Levies Record Penalty Against Facebook for Violating User Privacy

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined Facebook a record-breaking $5 billion for giving third parties access to information that Facebook users did not want to share. Among the settlement’s terms, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to remove...

Somalia’s Deadly Year Continues with Suicide Bombing

On July 24, 2019, a suicide bomber walked into a high-level security meeting in the mayor’s office in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, and detonated explosives. The attack killed six people and seriously injured another six, including mayor Abdirahaman...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the death of Hamza bin Laden and its potential impact on the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

"A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided against victims of attacks by Hamas who looked to hold Facebook accountable for allegedly enabling a social-media platform for the U.S.-designated terrorist group to promote its objectives. 'More must be...

Extremist Content Online: Cloudflare Provides Services for White Supremacist Content, Including New Zealand Attack Video

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. CEP identified two white supremacist websites, one dedicated to the neo-Nazi manifesto Siege and the...

"Deepfakes are becoming more difficult to detect as the technology used to create them advances, said Hany Farid, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has a financial stake in Truepic and whose research on media...

"With that in mind, we used lists of organizations promoting hate from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hope Not Hate, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, and the Counter Extremism Project, in addition to channels recommended on the white supremacist...

Tri-Border Countries Enter into Alliance Against Terrorism

On July 22, Argentina , Brazil , and Paraguay entered into an alliance with the United States to counter “illicit activity” and terrorism in the Tri-Border Area (TBA), the region that straddles the three South American countries’ borders. The “three...