CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses right wing extremism and social media's role in creating the environment that led to the New Zealand attacks. The interview begins at the 30-minute mark of the broadcast.

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses why social media platforms failed to detect and permanently remove videos of the New Zealand mosque shootings.

"Germany took on-board these issues and ploughed ahead with its law, known as 'NetzDG', which came into force in January last year. The law creates a process by which people can complain to the companies about hate speech online. A study by the...

"A Georgia woman has been charged with helping the ISIS terrorist group make a 'kill list' of fellow Americans. In early 2017, Vo recruited other people to create content to post online propaganda for ISIS, including a video that threatened a...

"Global social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and Youtube all failed to adequately respond when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 people in New Zealand, live streaming the event on the internet. The failure of the platforms to adequately...

"Not long after a man gunned down dozens and killed at least 50 worshipers inside two New Zealand mosques while wearing a body-mounted camera to record the carnage, the video quickly spread on YouTube — it was repeatedly taken down and then posted...

"FAR-RIGHT fanatics could form a 'sizeable army of terrorists' on social media, UK experts warned last night. Professor Anthony Glees of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies said: 'In a particular country, there may be a small minority of...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the aftermath of the New Zealand attacks and why Congress needs to revisit social media companies' exemptions.

"New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday said she would be looking for answers from Facebook and other social media firms about how an attack that killed 50 mosque-goers was livestreamed on their platforms. The shootings in New Zealand...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the attack at two New Zealand mosques and the rise of right-wing violence