CEP in the News

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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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March 25, 2019

“Several neo-Nazi groups remain active on Facebook after it was found they did not violate the site’s 'community standards.' The pages were operated by international white supremacist organizations, as per Counter Extremism Project (CEP) via an...

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March 25, 2019

“According to researchers at the Counter Extremism Project who compiled the exhaustive report on the proliferation of neo-Nazi pages on Facebook, after submitting multiple reports to the Facebook moderators over the offensive pages, they were told...

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March 24, 2019

The Isis caliphate, which once stretched for thousands of miles across Iraq and Syria, has been declared defeated. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed group of Kurdish and Arab fighters, announced on Saturday that it had captured the last...

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March 24, 2019

"But while YouTube is trying to remove violent videos, their site is passively helping in radicalising the disaffected in other ways, according to experts. It does so by creating a rabbit-hole effect, drawing viewers in to related videos with an...

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March 24, 2019

"Neo-Nazi groups have been allowed to remain on Facebook because the social media giant found they did not violate its 'community standards', it has been revealed. Counter Extremism Project report, seen exclusively by The Independent, showed the same...

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March 22, 2019

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses the failure of Facebook to prevent more than 300,000 copies of the New Zealand massacre video from being reuploaded. "The repeated uploading is an absolute failure and its inexcusable because we have the...

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March 21, 2019

"Though acts of terrorism take place in the real world, they attain a kind of online afterlife. Materials like those from the recent Christchurch shooting proliferate as supporters upload them to any media platform they can reach. Lawmakers in Europe...

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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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