European Commission's Proposal on Terrorist Content Needs to Protect EU Citizens

The European Commission today released its regulation on terrorist content online. While the legislation is a step forward, it is is flawed in that it gives tech companies one hour from the time a piece of content is flagged as being extremist to...

ICYMI--CEP Identifies Far-Right Terrorist Group Using Cryptocurrency to Fund Firearms Purchases

A new European far-right group calling themselves Order of Dawn has apparently started a cryptocurrency crowdfunding campaign for their violent “Reconquista ” of Europe. Order of Dawn endorses racism and anti-Semitism. Specifically, the group is...

Extremist Groups Leverage Lesser-Known Social Media Websites

New research shows that the use of hate speech and extremism online has “surged on shadowy social media platforms” like 4chan and Gab.ai, with “white-supremacist themes” targeting Jews and African Americans. Social media alone is not to blame and web...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: As Sheryl Sandberg Testifies Before Congress, Extremists Remain on Facebook

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testified before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday and as expected, her testimony was filled with familiar refrains, PR-laden apologies, proclamations of supposed successes and promises to do more...

CEP Calls Out Tech’s Ongoing Spin Campaign, Demands Transparency And Accountability From Tech

CEP issued a statement ahead of Congressional testimony by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that read in part: "The Counter Extremism Project calls upon members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Select...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Barely a decade old, cloud computing has revolutionised the way individuals and companies host and access digital content from anywhere in the world. As they have with social media platforms and other...

In the Wild-West Internet, Extremism Finds a Home

So, it is the case again. Social media companies are facilitating the mobilization of radical and dangerous groups. Just over a week ago, neo-Nazis took to the streets in Germany to demonstrate and intimidate any outsiders or immigrants. Following...

The European Union is poised to adopt sweeping new powers against abuse of internet technologies, including measures to ensure the rapid removal of online terrorist message and an overhaul of regulations designed to counter cyber security threats...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Today, rabble-rousers in Northern Ireland have an array of modern tools with which they can spread their extremist ideology. Research by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has revealed that, in the online...

CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Department Chairman Dr. Hany Farid, writing in the German newspaper Handelsblatt, discusses the consequences of online extremism and the pressing need for social media companies to act. "The...