News and Media

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Deputy Director Lara Pham write: "Technology giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google maintain they are neutral platforms that cannot be held responsible for the content posted on their sites. The root of that misguided and socially harmful belief stems...

"Tipped by U.S. based terrorism watchdog the Counter Extremism Project, VICE News has obtained a strange, illuminating memoir seeking to explain the appeal of the organization, written in the aftermath of the FBI raids by someone who claims to be a former member. It details some of the very...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid "an electrical engineering and computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, testified the COVID-19 pandemic has been an 'ideal breeding ground' for online misinformation as people take to social media while forced to remain at...

"Director of the Counter Extremism Project think tank, Hans-Jakob Schindler, said there was still a significant terror threat in Europe. 'Only a few weeks into the pandemic, ISIS began calling again on its members to conduct attacks again,"'Mr Schindler said. 'In April, a...

Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project Ian Acheson writes: "But how do we spot, track and stop the descent of people into violent extremism before they act? A foolproof system would destroy our civil liberties — the very thing the terrorist wants. But we can and must do better...

"The Counter Extremism Project reports that 'Tajideen was arrested on an INTERPOL warrant five days after his indictment at Casablanca’s airport in Morocco while traveling from Guinea to Beirut...'"...

CEP Europe Senior Adviser Lucinda Creighton writes: "Never before has a situation demonstrated such a broad consensus for taking extra measures to regulate content online as the coronavirus has. At the same time, digital rights defenders and supportive MEPs are downplaying the use of automated...

"Josh Lipowsky, a senior research analyst for the Counter Extremism Project, said the messaging is dangerous regardless of intent. 'Putting this out there into the public sphere — we do not know who is going to see that and take it to heart,' he said."...

"Extremist groups used the reopen rallies and their online communities to recruit followers who view government-mandated quarantine as overreach, an important part of far-right ideology, said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project."...

CEP Senior Advsier Dr. Hany Farid writes: "In the past, tech industry giants such as Google have argued that it is pointless to block certain websites because they simply emerge under slightly modified names—thus leading to an endless whack-a-mole problem. This problem, however, can be...