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"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...

"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, who worked with Microsoft to develop...

"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 their recommendations to all the countries in...

"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 a small group, but they have a very...

"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 race traitors.’ Analyst Joshua...

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 report by the Counter Extremism Project, calling on...

"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 failed to stop the spread of the March 15...

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 the Christchurch mosque attacks for...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE that it makes sense that extreme white supremacist groups would parrot ISIS or al Qaeda propaganda because they both endorse the use of extreme violence for ideological ends. 'ISIS and al Qaeda have a...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "Preventing online extremism has become a priority for policy-makers in Europe. Germany was the first to legislate against extremist content in 2018, with its NetzDG Law, and earlier this year the EU has put forward a proposal for a regulation on...