FRIDAY IN MIAMI: NEW REPORT ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA TO BE DISCUSSED BY ASYMMETRICA AND COUNTER EXTREMISM PROJECT

MIAMI – On Friday, July 27, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Asymmetrica will host a discussion in Miami on a new report about transnational organized crime in Latin America’s Tri-Border Area in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, commonly known...

Iranian Influence in South America

In October 2014, Lebanese citizen Muhammad Ghaleb Hamdar was arrested in Lima, Peru. He was charged with conspiracy to commit terror after authorities found explosive materials and photos of potential targets––including popular Peruvian tourist...

YouTube repeatedly fails to remove jihadist videos within two hours of them being posted because of 'staggering' holes in its monitoring, according to a study. It found that the Google-owned video sharing site missed its target for taking down...

Online video has long been a crucial recruitment and propaganda tool for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as well as al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Facing sharp criticism over the situation, these companies claimed last year to...

YOUTUBE allows extremists to spread jihadist propaganda online by exploiting holes in the website's filters, it emerged today. The site has a two-hour target for taking down terror content - but it misses that target in a quarter of all cases, a...

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new study that finds YouTube’s efforts to proactively remove extremist content from its platform are failing. The report, which utilized an online web crawler and its own hashing technology - eGLYPH -...

CEP Report: YouTube’s Ongoing Failure to Remove ISIS Content

CEP today released a new study that finds YouTube’s efforts to proactively remove extremist content from its platform are failing. The report calls into question YouTube’s claims of being able to remove ISIS videos quickly and effectively. Using a...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Press Call With Counter Extremism Project Regarding New Report On ISIS YouTube Content

New York, NY – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) will hold a press call with Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Dr. Farid will discuss the release of a new CEP report detailing ISIS content on YouTube. WHO: Dr...

CEP Advisiory Board Member Sir Ivor Roberts writes: “This week, a rare light was cast into the shadows of state sponsorship of terrorism. Documents obtained by the BBC reveal that in 2015, Qatar paid approximately $1 billion to one of the most...

For David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, a US non-profit group that aims to tackle extremist ideology, the only shocking thing about the Dispatches programme was that Facebook allowed an investigative journalist to be...