News and Media

"Though acts of terrorism take place in the real world, they attain a kind of online afterlife. Materials like those from the recent Christchurch shooting proliferate as supporters upload them to any media platform they can reach. Lawmakers in Europe have had enough, and this year, they hope...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses why social media platforms failed to detect and permanently remove videos of the New Zealand mosque shootings.

"Germany took on-board these issues and ploughed ahead with its law, known as 'NetzDG', which came into force in January last year. The law creates a process by which people can complain to the companies about hate speech online. A study by the Europe-based Counter Extremism Project...

"A Georgia woman has been charged with helping the ISIS terrorist group make a 'kill list' of fellow Americans. In early 2017, Vo recruited other people to create content to post online propaganda for ISIS, including a video that threatened a nonprofit based in New York City. The...

"Global social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and Youtube all failed to adequately respond when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 people in New Zealand, live streaming the event on the internet. The failure of the platforms to adequately respond again raises questions about why...

"Not long after a man gunned down dozens and killed at least 50 worshipers inside two New Zealand mosques while wearing a body-mounted camera to record the carnage, the video quickly spread on YouTube — it was repeatedly taken down and then posted again, with uploaders able to work...

"FAR-RIGHT fanatics could form a 'sizeable army of terrorists' on social media, UK experts warned last night. Professor Anthony Glees of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies said: 'In a particular country, there may be a small minority of maybe hundreds of neo-Nazis...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the aftermath of the New Zealand attacks and why Congress needs to revisit social media companies' exemptions...

"Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube were all criticised for their handling of extremist content on their platforms after video footage of the New Zealand mosque shootings was live streamed and widely shared online. Fifty people died in and after the attacks. Lucinda Creighton, who is senior...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the attack at two New Zealand mosques and the rise of right-wing violence