CEP Senior Advisor and former UK Ambassador to Ireland Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "It is too easy to be smug about the relative peace that has prevailed in Northern Ireland over the past 20 years. The threat of a return to violence in Northern Ireland...

"Less than two years after victory was declared over ISIS-aligned militants in Marawi, the threat of extremism has returned to the southern Philippines. In response, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to hit resurgent militants hard, but...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the worldwide threat assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.

Senior Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Ginsberg writes in the Diplomatic Courier: "On January 23, 2019, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spotted on Google’s YouTube platform vulgar videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which would...

“Designed to spread the vengeful ideology of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, a website named Revolution Muslim (RM) was quietly launched into cyberspace in 2007 out of a Brooklyn apartment. RM was the brainchild of New Yorker Jesse Morton and Yousef al...

CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS This Morning

On January 30, 2019, CEP President Fran Townsend discussed the Worldwide Threat Assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.

Nick Clegg Sets Out Collaborative Vision for Facebook Content Regulation

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the following in response to Facebook Executive Nick Clegg 's speech in Brussels. " Until Facebook starts to engage seriously with all of those concerned about extremism, as well as releasing the data needed to...

“From the depths of ISIS' self-proclaimed territory in Somalia, members of the terror group released a propaganda video, 'Men Who Have Been True', celebrating dead fighters and detailing the branch’s endeavors to provide food and medical aid to the...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Uploads Propaganda to Over Two Dozen Websites

On January 23, ISIS released a new video from the group’s self-proclaimed province in Somalia. Titled “Men Who Have Been True,” it commemorates extremist fighters killed in Somalia and includes footage of a man identified as a Canadian, Dr. Youssef...

Extremism Spotlight: Neo-Nazi Book Siege Lives on Through the Internet

Previously, CEP highlighted the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division’s presence on YouTube . After months on the site, within 24 hours of CEP’s release, the content was taken down. Now, CEP is spotlighting Siege , a book written by American neo-Nazi...