CEP in the News

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June 26, 2020

"'Amazon is just as much to blame as Twitch for allowing this stream online,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project at the time. 'Online platforms need to step up and stop their services being used and in turn, parent companies...

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June 25, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid's testimony before Congress referenced: "Appearing virtually before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce UC Berkeley professor and expert in digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid testified that Facebook has a toxic...

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June 24, 2020

"'Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi was a former officer in Saddam Hussein's army and was considered one of the most prominent ISIS members in Baghdadi's circle,' David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), told Fox News...

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June 24, 2020

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...

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June 24, 2020

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...

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June 24, 2020

"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...

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June 22, 2020

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...

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June 22, 2020

"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...

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June 21, 2020

"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...'"

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June 17, 2020

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...

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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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