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"The Raising the Bar Act would create a government-backed program to help tech companies eliminate the scourge of posts, images and videos from terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda on their social networks. The legislation would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate...

"Some of the world’s biggest marketers halted YouTube spending this month after ads from large brands were found running alongside hateful and extremist videos. Google parent Alphabet Inc. risks losing $750 million in revenue this year from the debacle, analysts at Nomura Instinet...

"iFunny is an obvious target for extremist groups because modern-day propaganda comes in meme form, and websites with young audiences are ripe for grooming, said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project. 'iFunny caters to a young and online demographic,...

"A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Hoda Muthana, a 25-year-old woman born in New Jersey who joined ISIS in 2014, is not a US citizen. Judge Reggie B. Walton of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought forward by Muthana's family in the hopes...

The main method for detecting the illegal imagery was created in 2009 by Microsoft and Hany Farid, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The software, known as PhotoDNA, can use computers to recognize photos, even altered ones, and compare them against databases of known...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "And while IS has certainly lost territory, they have not lost the capacity to operate online, radicalising the vulnerable, aided and abetted by our global tech platforms. Forced out of outright denial that there was a problem at all after years of...

A US-born woman who says she regrets having joined the Islamic State group has appealed again to come home from the refugee camp where she lives with her small son in Syria. The government is refusing to let Hoda Muthana return to the US, arguing that she is not an American citizen. Secretary of...

"'We are losing (Islamists) detainees' in Syrian camps ... Thursday, one of the participants of the conference organized by the Center for the analysis of terrorism, chaired by Jean-Charles Brisard, and the think-tank American Counter Extremism Project (CEP) was sounding the alarm. The...

"Meeting for a symposium in Paris, entitled "Threats and challenges after the fall of the caliphate", organized by the Center for Terrorism Analysis and Counter Terrorism Project, they all expressed their pessimism. Gilles de Kerchove said that during a recent stay in the Anbar...

"Despite the recent death of its top leader, the Jihadist Islamic State (IS) group is far from being annihilated, and will remain a fearsome enemy for years, officials and experts in Paris warned on Thursday. At the symposium "Threats and Challenges after the Fall of the 'Caliphate...