CEP in the News

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October 10, 2019

"Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, has outpaced WhatsApp, Twitter and other messaging services to replace 8chan as the go-to online gathering place for religious and right-wing extremists, according to one expert from the Counter Extremism...

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October 9, 2019

"Experts say that two months after 8chan, the fringe social network known as a breeding ground for white supremacists, went offline, other platforms are now attracting extremist voices. 'Where people really are going is Telegram,' said Joshua Fisher...

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October 8, 2019

"It took YouTube more than a week to take action against a propaganda video on its site produced by the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) — the neo-Nazi terrorist organization under FBI investigation and linked to five murders in the U.S. — and the poster’s...

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October 7, 2019

"VICE News analyzed 150 public-facing far-right Telegram channels and found that more than two-thirds were created in the first eight months of 2019. And not only do white nationalists have a much more robust presence on Telegram than they did two...

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October 3, 2019

"Mixed messages have led to recurring friction between Facebook and outside researchers who still find considerable violent or hateful content on the site. Hany Farid, who studies digital forensics at UC-Berkeley and works with the nonprofit Counter...

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October 2, 2019

"There are five jihadists held in Irish prisons serving convictions relating to Islamist extremism offences, according to new research. The report Guns and Glory: Criminality, Imprisonment and Jihadist Extremism in Europe, was published by the...

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October 2, 2019

"The video shows James Mason, the author of influential works that advocate for lone-wolf violence by white supremacists, joined by 12 masked men who are all members of Atomwaffen Division (AWD). This video is notably less violent than previous...

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October 2, 2019

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joins host J.J. Green to discuss the status of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered to be one of world's most innovative and dangerous terror groups. Schindler notes that AQAP is just as...

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October 2, 2019

"The New York Times reported on Saturday that Facebook Messenger, which is not encrypted, accounted for nearly two-thirds of reports last year of online child sexual abuse imagery. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that Facebook as a whole...

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September 30, 2019

"Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions. But it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year. Hany Farid...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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