CEP in the News

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April 3, 2019

“Facebook has found a novel solution to the never-ending deluge of negative headlines and news articles criticizing the company: Simply paying a British newspaper to run laudatory stories about it. On March 13, the series ran a feature headlined...

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April 2, 2019

"But the Counter Extremism Project—an anti-extremism non-profit network based in the US—has highlighted YouTube’s continued refusal to remove Siege from its online library. 'I think it’s because they’re not taking the threat seriously,' said CEP...

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April 2, 2019

"It is time for social media companies to get tough with Qatar-based Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, experts on extremism have said, as the controversial cleric is named in Arab News’ ongoing 'Preachers of Hate' series. Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst at...

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April 2, 2019

“As Christchurch came to a standstill March 29, part of a memorial service for the 50 victims of a terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand two weeks earlier, questions were being asked about how far-right hatred is spread online, particularly...

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April 1, 2019

"A former head of counter-terrorism in the UK's Foreign Office has said Irish Isil bride Lisa Smith should be detained if she returns to Ireland for her own safety. Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador to Ireland, said Ms Smith could be...

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April 1, 2019

"The ISIS territorial “caliphate” may have crumbled, but the terror group's heart beats on for at least as long as its illusory leader evades capture or death -- and Iraqi intelligence officials insist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 47, is alive and in hiding...

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March 31, 2019

"Irish prison officers are to be trained to spot and stop signs of radicalisation among inmates. The Department of Justice says the move is part of its plan to deal with a potential increase in radicalisation and extremism. Ian Acheson, a senior...

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March 29, 2019

"In recent weeks a number of web hosting services have shut down several major online neo-Nazi meeting grounds, Motherboard has learned. In perhaps the biggest takedown of all, Fascist Forge, a Facebook-like site for online Nazis, disappeared for a...

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March 28, 2019

"For 80-year-old Kiptenai Kosgei, Shadrack Kipkoech used to be his little boy. He’s far from that now. They say he is radicalised. What’s more, he now supports Al-Shabaab. The Counter-Extremism Project states that Kenya is a prime location for al...

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March 27, 2019

"Two internet hosting companies have removed a white supremacist web forum after they were notified of the racist content by the Counter Extremism Project, an anti-extremism group. DreamHost and Hostinger suspended the Fascist Forge forum after the...

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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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