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"The video shows James Mason, the author of influential works that advocate for lone-wolf violence by white supremacists, joined by 12 masked men who are all members of Atomwaffen Division (AWD). This video is notably less violent than previous...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joins host J.J. Green to discuss the status of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered to be one of world's most innovative and dangerous terror groups. Schindler notes that AQAP is just as...
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"The New York Times reported on Saturday that Facebook Messenger, which is not encrypted, accounted for nearly two-thirds of reports last year of online child sexual abuse imagery. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that Facebook as a whole...
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"Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions. But it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year. Hany Farid...
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"The issue of radicalization remains particularly problematic in Belgium and the United Kingdom, say two researchers from the European Policy Center who have studied the links between crime, imprisonment and jihadism in ten European countries. In...
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"The group has reportedly called for the deaths of European Parliament politician Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube chief executive officer Susan Wojcicki. Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project in New York, said: 'This is...
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"A notorious neo-Nazi group has urged its members to attack police stations and threatened to murder chief constables, it was reported last night. Leaders of the group, called the Feuerkrieg Division, said: ‘The people working in these buildings are...
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"Facebook has been using real-life first-person shooter video footage to develop artificial intelligence that can more effectively auto-block the type of video that was livestreamed on March 15. Facebook has been widely criticised over the way it...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses Facebook's plan to expand to Australia a program that targets right wing extremism on its platform. The program was begun last year in the U.S. Schindler said it was "astonishing" that it took...
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Facebook has faced several complaints about its functions that inadvertently help promoting extremist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda, but the company appears to have made little progress on the issue. Gregory Waters, one of the authors of an extensive...
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