CEP in the News

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July 10, 2020

"Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the New York-based nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, has focused on vehicular attacks on protesters in recent months. 'These vehicle rammings have become a more common tactic being used against protesters in...

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July 8, 2020

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with WTOP's The Hunt about Khairi Saadallah, the 25-year-old Libyan refugee arrested after a terror attack that left an American dead in the U.K. He was involved in a so-called de-radicalization program.

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July 8, 2020

“'This is a tactic that has been around for several years,' said Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the Counter Extremism Project. 'It was originally used early on by Islamist extremists — ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas — but in the last five years or so...

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July 7, 2020

"'There has been an increasing amount of propaganda online calling for vehicular attacks on protesters, targeting the Black Lives Matter movement in particular,' said Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the Counter Extremism Project. 'It is being...

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July 7, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "UC Berkeley professor and expert in digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid testified that Facebook has a toxic business model that puts profit over the good of society and that its algorithms have been...

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July 5, 2020

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The tech companies' abdication of responsibility for what happens on their platforms has concrete consequences. After the routing of the IS in the Middle East, Southeast Asia has the potential to be another...

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July 5, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Dr. Hany Farid writes: "The EARN IT Act is the culmination of years of cajoling, pleading, and threatening the technology sector to get its house in order. They have not, and so now is the time for legislation to rein them in...

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July 4, 2020

"Another study, this time by the US-based Counter Extremism Project, released in 2018, noted that Facebook has helped Daesh grow fast by connecting its members with others with similar extremist views. The study, which analysed the online behaviour...

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June 30, 2020

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), says it's unclear why Telegram does not take action against these specific violent White supremacist channels. 'The fact that they do not take action, despite these...

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June 30, 2020

"'We have gotten to a tipping point,' said Hany Farid, a professor at University of California-Berkeley. 'The Trump administration, Covid, Black Lives Matter, the ugliness social media is surfacing -- I think people finally realize this is not OK...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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