Extremists and Online Propaganda

CEP today released a new report that details the online platforms sought out by known extremists on their path to radicalism. The study directly links radicalized Westerners to the extremist propaganda they consumed and/or shared on popular online...

Neo-Nazis & Terror How-To Videos: The Continued Normalization of Online Extremism

With the interconnectivity that comes with the Internet and social media, extremists who would have otherwise never found each other are coming together like never before – and they’re finding strength in numbers. The New York Times reported last...

CEP Advisory Board Member Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "Like the investment banks, today’s big tech is focused on profit at the expense of its responsibility to society. Our research at the Counter Extremism Project has uncovered how tech companies fail...

U.S.-Designated Hezbollah Financier Arrested in Brazil

Prominent Hezbollah financier Assad Ahmad Barakat, designated as a global terrorist by the U.S., was arrested Saturday in the border region between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Barakat is wanted by Paraguayan authorities for identity theft and by...

Al Jazeera: Brazilian police arrested a fugitive who the United States accuses of being the financier for the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Assad Ahmad Barakat was arrested in Foz de Iguazu, a city in the border region between Brazil, Argentina and...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Brussels-based think tank Centre for European Policy Studies and the Berlin office of the international organization, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) have teamed up to study this NetzDG law, seeing it as a...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Brussels-based think tank Centre for European Policy Studies and the Berlin office of the international organization, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) have teamed up to study this NetzDG law, seeing it as a...

The European Commission has released its regulation on terrorist content online. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) congratulates President Juncker and the Commission staff who have managed to carry this legislation over the line. The Commission has...

Terror Groups Evolve as They Move “At The Speed Of Social Media”

It’s understood that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sorts through terrorism threats daily, but these threats are changing – and multiplying. FBI Director Christopher Wray told CBS News in an interview last week that the bureau made “about...

The big tech giants have been overselling the effectiveness of AI in countering hate on their platforms. Our democratic and open societies must put aside the notion that AI is the panacea for the problem at hand. Social polarization and growing...