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"In a webinar, hosted by the Counter Extremism Project, experts explained that key recruiters also helped facilitate their journeys, weapons and training. It highlighted the role of hate preachers like Britain’s Anjem Choudary in recruiting youngsters."...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid: "Algorithms are amplifying the most divisive, the most hateful, the most conspiratorial, the most outrageous, because that engages people and that maximizes profit."...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses what happened this past week when Paris was rattled by a stabbing attack at the very location where 12 people were killed during the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015.

"Joshua Fisher Birch, a research analyst with the U.S. based Counter Extremism Project, described the group as a 'secretive satanic, fascist cult that believes in the use of extreme violence, rape, pedophilia, murder, and terrorism to bring about chaos and the downfall of the modern order...

"Joshua Fisher Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, said: 'It is unacceptable that dangerous ISIS propaganda that contains instructions for making explosives remains online'. Mr Birch said tech companies can prevent the spread of dangerous ISIS content by creating...

"A media group affiliated with al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen released a statement encouraging attacks in France as a response to the republication, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit."...

"A media group affiliated with al Qaeda had recently released a statement encouraging attacks on France, according to Site Intel and the Counter Extremism Project."...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the U.S. based terrorism watchdog Counter-Extremism Project, said the revelation shows the scale of the public safety threat the neo-Nazi terror movement has become with the influx of military skills among its adherents."...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'Even if it's not organic to TikTok, it's going to end up there,' said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert and council member, who said he hoped TikTok's election policies would become 'clearer.'"...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "'Cryptocurrency is a massive loophole for ISIS and other terrorists,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former U.N. sanctions coordinator. 'Unless governments intervene and regulate this sector further, it’s hard if not impossible...