Pressure Points: Pushing Tech to Do Better

In video eight of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid explains how if tech companies can't decide that they should do better, the public should decide for them.

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: Tech Companies Need “A Fundamental Change” to Tackle Extremist Content

CEP today released the eighth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled " Pressure Points ," Dr. Farid calls for a collective effort...

"Experts are issuing increasingly urgent warnings about the advance of deepfake technology ― both the realistic nature of these videos, and the ease with which even amateurs can create them. Deepfake technology threatens to provoke a genuine civic...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler are interviewed about deepfake videos, solutions for other problems plaguing the self-regulated tech industry, as well as CEP's hashing technology, eGLYPH.

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists & Neo-Nazis Continue Thriving on YouTube

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’s edition urges YouTube to strictly enforce its new policy for removing extremist videos, in...

"YouTube’s new policy was supposed to combat extremism on the site. Some white supremacists lost their videos, but after a confused rollout on Wednesday, journalists and educators are also seeing their videos purged. But the policy’s announcement...

Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists

For more than 40 years, William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries has served as a “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists around the world. The book has directly inspired at least three terror attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City...

Products and Consumers: Dr. Hany Farid Explains

In video seven of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses how tech companies have a responsibility to consumers and can no longer say "we're just a platform".

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Do We Want to Reward the Bad Behavior of [Tech] Companies?”

CEP today released the seventh of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , an incoming professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled “ Products & Consumers ,” Dr. Farid urges end users to question the...

CEP Statement on YouTube Policy: Focus on Removing Videos Denying Historic Violence & Violent Content

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement today in response to Google-owned YouTube announcing a new policy that read in part: "Instead of simply enforcing its long-standing community guidelines consistently and transparently, YouTube has...