CEP Marks Westminster, Brussels Anniversary, Calls for Action on Extremist Content Online

CEP issued the following statements today to mark the March 22 joint anniversary of the 2017 Westminster Bridge attack and the 2016 Brussels bombings, which together claimed 37 innocent lives.

CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid on ABC News (Australia) Radio

CEP Senior Adviser and digital forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid discusses why social media companies have failed at curbing spread of New Zealand terror attack video and what can be done, with host of RN Breakfast Fran Kelly.

How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will host an event to present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses why social media platforms failed to detect and permanently remove videos of the New Zealand mosque shootings.

"Germany took on-board these issues and ploughed ahead with its law, known as 'NetzDG', which came into force in January last year. The law creates a process by which people can complain to the companies about hate speech online. A study by the...

"A Georgia woman has been charged with helping the ISIS terrorist group make a 'kill list' of fellow Americans. In early 2017, Vo recruited other people to create content to post online propaganda for ISIS, including a video that threatened a...

"Global social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and Youtube all failed to adequately respond when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 people in New Zealand, live streaming the event on the internet. The failure of the platforms to adequately...

"Not long after a man gunned down dozens and killed at least 50 worshipers inside two New Zealand mosques while wearing a body-mounted camera to record the carnage, the video quickly spread on YouTube — it was repeatedly taken down and then posted...

CEP Statement in Support of Australian Prime Minister’s Call for the G20 to Address Regulation of Tech Industry in Wake of New Zealand Attacks

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid and Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement in support of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s call for the Group of Twenty (G20 ) to take measures against social media companies in the wake of the...

"FAR-RIGHT fanatics could form a 'sizeable army of terrorists' on social media, UK experts warned last night. Professor Anthony Glees of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies said: 'In a particular country, there may be a small minority of...