News and Media

"Social media firms faced anger and calls to 'step up' last night after graphic footage of an anti-Semitic gun rampage in Germany was streamed live on Twitch and watched by thousands of people. Wearing a helmet camera, the gunman filmed himself shooting two people dead and trying to...

"Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, has outpaced WhatsApp, Twitter and other messaging services to replace 8chan as the go-to online gathering place for religious and right-wing extremists, according to one expert from the Counter Extremism Project. Researcher Joshua Fischer-Birch told The...

"Just weeks after a broad effort announced by tech platforms to curb the spread of violent content, a video of Wednesday's deadly shooting in the German city of Halle was posted online, where it was seen by some 2,200 people. Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project, a group...

"Experts say that two months after 8chan, the fringe social network known as a breeding ground for white supremacists, went offline, other platforms are now attracting extremist voices. 'Where people really are going is Telegram,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the Counter...

"It took YouTube more than a week to take action against a propaganda video on its site produced by the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) — the neo-Nazi terrorist organization under FBI investigation and linked to five murders in the U.S. — and the poster’s channel remains active...

"VICE News analyzed 150 public-facing far-right Telegram channels and found that more than two-thirds were created in the first eight months of 2019. And not only do white nationalists have a much more robust presence on Telegram than they did two years ago, but their channels have grown more...

"Mixed messages have led to recurring friction between Facebook and outside researchers who still find considerable violent or hateful content on the site. Hany Farid, who studies digital forensics at UC-Berkeley and works with the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, fears that the company...

"There are five jihadists held in Irish prisons serving convictions relating to Islamist extremism offences, according to new research. The report Guns and Glory: Criminality, Imprisonment and Jihadist Extremism in Europe, was published by the Counter Extremism Project and the European Policy...

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 big a threat as it’s ever been...

"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 was responsible for 90 percent of the reports...