"The best young tech talent in Northern Ireland will be jetting off as VIPs to the U.S. as part of an innovative technology and outreach programme. Spearheaded by the team behind Digital DNA, Northern Ireland’s largest digital and technology...

Tech & Terrorism: Presence of Banned Neo-Nazi Content Demonstrates YouTube’s Failure to Enforce its Own Rules

This week, CEP revealed that supporters of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (AWD ) have re-uploaded AWD’s videos yet again on YouTube. Despite the tech giant banning AWD’s channel more than a year ago, YouTube failed to prevent the upload of...

Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban

During today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, when asked what Google was doing to stop far-right propaganda from spreading on YouTube, Counsel for Free Expression and Human Rights Alexandria Walden stated that for “borderline” content, YouTube...

"Representatives from Facebook and Google appeared before congress today over the role of online platforms in promoting hate crimes, extremism and white nationalism. The House Judiciary Committee hearing follows the mass shooting that targeted two...

Facebook & Google Must Take Responsibility for Proliferation of Extremist Content Online

CEP today called on members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary to use their Tuesday hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism to hold the tech industry accountable for its failure to permanently remove extremist and terrorist content in...

LIBE Committee Passes Critical Vote on the Terror Content File

CEP issued statements today following the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on the draft report on Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "On February 22, 1972, a month on from Bloody Sunday, the first Provisional IRA attack in Britain occurred. A car bomb detonated outside a Parachute Regiment barracks in Aldershot, killing seven civilians...

A former UK ambassador to Dublin fears a return to IRA violence across the UK if devolution is not restored. Former diplomat Sir Ivor Roberts (72) - who served from 1999 to 2003 as Ambassador to Ireland - also hit out at 'tone-deaf' comments from...

“Last Thursday, the neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division (FKD), inspired by James Mason’s Siege and the Atomwaffen Division, posted propaganda on their Gab account calling for violence against MEP Guy Verhofstadt. Speaking to the Counter Extremism...

"Pathways into extremism in Europe may be more complex than originally thought, a new study has found. GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project have identified eight main pathways into Islamic extremism, including partaking in criminal activities...