CEP in the News

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March 17, 2019

"Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube were all criticised for their handling of extremist content on their platforms after video footage of the New Zealand mosque shootings was live streamed and widely shared online. Fifty people died in and after...

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March 15, 2019

"It’s no longer possible to brush off such events as isolated incidents or to minimize the role of social media companies in enabling them. Tech companies can’t be allowed to shrug off the violence and social division abetted by their products as if...

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March 15, 2019

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace discusses the unwillingness of social media companies to effectively respond to the proliferation of radicalizing and violent extremist content on their platforms. "Right now they claim they are surprised by this --...

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March 15, 2019

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace discusses the responsibilities of social media platforms in the aftermath of the of the New Zealand mosque shootings. "Sadly this is not a new problem... What is shocking is that it took the social media companies...

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March 15, 2019

"Tough questions are being asked about the role of social media in the wake of the horrific shooting that took the lives of at least 49 people at two New Zealand mosques. 'The attack on New Zealand Muslims today is a shocking and disgraceful act of...

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March 15, 2019

"Nearly 18 hours after a terror attack that killed 49 people at a mosque in New Zealand on Friday, footage from the shooting remained live on YouTube and Facebook. 'The video is still circulating online,' said David Ibsen, the executive director of...

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March 15, 2019

"While platforms including Twitter Inc. and YouTube said they moved fast to scrub any content related to the incident from their sites, people reported it was still widely available hours after being first uploaded to the alleged shooter’s Facebook...

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March 16, 2019

"Just hours after the attack, a search of the term “Muslims” from an incognito browser yielded a list of YouTube’s top-recommended videos, including one with 3.7 million views. The video argued, without evidence, that the majority of Muslims are...

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March 15, 2019

"In the hours after the massacre played out on Facebook, the video was copied and re-uploaded hundreds of times to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The tech giants say they are working hard to stop the video being shared, but it's still easily...

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March 15, 2019

"Forty-nine people are dead and 20 more injured after terrorist attacks on two New Zealand mosques Friday. One of the alleged shooters is a white man who appears to have announced the attack on the anonymous-troll message board 8chan. By morning on...

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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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