The CounterPoint Blog

January 31, 2018 Joshua Fisher-Birch

YouTube: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

YouTube’s actions continue to fall short of its rhetoric when it comes to fighting extremism. Despite very public announcements of new technologies, more content reviewers, and a stated dedication to preventing terrorists and extremist groups from...

January 30, 2018 Ryan Pereira

Jihadist Rivals Jockey Over Jerusalem

Jihadists have used the Israeli-Palestinian issue to advance their narrative of Muslim victimhood. It’s no surprise that jihadist groups were furious when President Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. However, al-Qaeda and ISIS...

December 14, 2017 Ryan Pereira

ISIS’s Struggling Media Strategy

ISIS’s media arm is struggling to find a way to report on the group’s recent military encounters, specifically its humiliating losses to the Syrian and Iraqi armies in Abu Kamal and al-Qaim, respectively. This problem is clearly reflected by ISIS’s...

December 01, 2017 CEP Staff

Encryption a Challenge to Public Safety

Two years ago, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out a horrific shooting attack at a holiday party sponsored by Farook’s employer, the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, killing 14 people. During the attack, the...