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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid's Congressional testimony quoted: "'Mark Zuckerberg is hiding the fact that he knows that hate, lies, and divisiveness are good for business,' Farid testified. 'They didn’t set out to fuel misinformation and hate and divisiveness, but...

"Speaking to JNS, Josh Lipowsky, a senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, explained that while TikTok's 'comprehensive and specific hate-speech policies … are a step in the right direction for social media,' more steps to combat bigotry need to be taken...

"Counter Extremism Project senior research analyst Josh Lipowsky told JNS that while social-media companies such as TikTok have been taking steps to combat bigotry, more needs to be done. He said that TikTok’s 'comprehensive and specific hate-speech policies … are a step in...

"'With Turkish passports, Hamas members could potentially move around the world more easily and carry out terror attacks more readily,' Riza Kumar, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project said. 'It is possible that providing passports to members of Hamas could lead to an...

"'QAnon conspiracies are centered around the idea of a powerful elite secretly manipulating current events,' Counter Extremism Project senior research analyst Josh Lipowsky told JNS. 'QAnon subscribers have politicized the conspiracies around an imagined Democrat-led ‘deep...

"A former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, Mawla joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda after the US invasion of Iraq and Hussein's capture in 2003, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think-tank."...

"My next guest will be Kacper Rekawek. Kacper is an affiliated researcher at the Counter Extremism Project and a GLOBSEC associate fellow. Between 2016 and 2019 he led the latter’s national security program and has published on a broad range of extremist and terrorism groups. Since 2014...

"Last month, the group carried out at least 23 attacks in Syria alone, according to data compiled by the Counter Extremism Project. Those attacks were aimed mostly at forces loyal to Mr. Assad."...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "As the crisis developed, there was an increase in right-wing populism, AfD [the far-right party that became the third force in the federal parliament], all kinds of right-wing groups, and then, within the prepper movement , people leaned more...

"While most international attention has been focused on the “post-caliphate” Islamic State insurgencies in northeast Syria and Iraq, ISIS has steadily carried out an ever-expanding insurgency against the Syrian regime and its allies in central Syria. The insurgency began...