CEP in the News

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March 14, 2020

"Researchers at the Counter Extremism Project have identified at least 14 different websites where footage of the Christchurch terror attack can be accessed, a year after the shootings took place, Marc Daalder reports."

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March 13, 2020

"Millions of copies of the footage were later taken down but despite that videos of the attack still remain online, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said in a statement on Saturday. CEP, a private group that monitors and reports extremist content...

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March 13, 2020

"'I think what he’s doing is very realistic, and it makes sense for the American context,' said Lara Pham, the deputy director of the Counter Extremism Project, which helped advise Rose’s office on the bill."

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March 3, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'We are probably at the tip of the iceberg,' said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley. 'These things typically start on 4chan and other fringe sites, and by the...

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March 2, 2020

“'It is a technological problem, but it is really at the end of the day also a policy problem,' said Hany Farid, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the study."

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March 2, 2020

"Die großen Internetplattformen löschen offenbar nur einen Teil der problematischen Inhalte, die bei ihnen publiziert werden. Das ist das Ergebnis einer stichprobenartigen Untersuchung des Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Berlin."

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February 27, 2020

"David Daoud, an analyst for the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit NGO that works to combat extremist groups, told Al Arabiya English that while Hezbollah may have been hit by US sanctions, the group has five annual charity drives, and their...

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February 27, 2020

"Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director with the Counter Extremism Project, says there were likely different reasons for the similarities in attack tactics between Hanau and Christchurch."

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February 21, 2020

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks about the right-wing problem in Germany and the permissive environment for extremism and terrorism on the Internet.

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February 20, 2020

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses discernable patterns of extremists, in light of the attacks in Hanau, Germany on February 19, 2020, including online radicalization.