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July 22, 2019

"Children born to wives and fighters of the crumpled ISIS caliphate who are now left to fend for themselves in wretched refugee camps throughout Syria are being radicalized at increasingly younger ages, an ominous trend that's emerged as the newest...

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July 19, 2019

"This is one reason why there’s been some success in keeping extreme content like ISIS-related pro-terrorism posts and child pornography off the big platforms—the tech companies operate a shared database of flagged terrorist content, and can in many...

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July 11, 2019

"The Council of Conservative Citizens site is just one of the 391 websites we ran through web-based tools to determine which tech companies are providing services to groups like it. We reached out to a handful of non-profit organizations that work to...

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July 11, 2019

"Mastodon was launched as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of Nazis and harassment. But two years later, the biggest Mastodon instance is now Gab, a far-right social media network known widely as a gathering...

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July 11, 2019

"Now and over the coming five years, prison time for a deluge of extremists is coming to an end. Unlike other countries, 'the United States has neither established a formal rehabilitation and re-entry programme for convicted terrorists nor developed...

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July 10, 2019

"On Tuesday, Iran threatened the United States, warning that it would destroy American military bases and aircraft carriers 'if they make a mistake.' As The Counter Extremism Project has noted: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is tasked...

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July 9, 2019

“Pastor Steven Anderson uses his pulpit as his hate platform and justifies his extremist views in the name of religion. Banned from half a dozen countries across the globe, the US-born hate preacher has lauded the 2016 Orlando massacre, publicly...

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July 9, 2019

"A professor at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday warned that deepfake technology is being used to target women and create nonconsensual pornography. 'These aren’t abstract notions,' Hany Farid, who is also a senior advisor to the...

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July 6, 2019

CEP Research and Policy Analyst Alan Goldsmith writes: "June 26 marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, commemorated on the anniversary of the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Torture. For many imprisoned...

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June 27, 2019

“Telegram has been criticised for not acting fast enough to identify and block ISIS and other extremist groups from its platform. In February, the Counter Extremism Project said six years after the app’s founding, it remained 'a terrorists’ platform...

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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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