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October 29, 2020

Counter Extremism Project Launches ‘Fighting Terror’ Podcast

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is pleased to launch the inaugural episode of our new podcast ‘Fighting Terror’. This exciting new podcast will explore different ways we can combat terrorism in society and will feature informative and compelling...

Press Release

October 27, 2020

Regulation Is Needed To Protect Citizens From Terrorist Content Online

The dissemination of terrorist content online is one of the most challenging and dangerous misuses of online platforms by users. This propaganda of hate has an untold impact on the radicalization, recruitment, and training of terrorists across Europe...

Press Release

October 27, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: U.S. Justice Department Seizes Kata’ib Hezbollah Propaganda Websites

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the United States has seized two websites affiliated with U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH). The seized websites, Aletejahtv.com and kataibhezbollah.com...

Press Release

October 26, 2020

Extremist Content Online: Instagram, Facebook Accounts Speading Pro-ISIS Propaganda

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, ISIS’s spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi released a video...

Press Release

October 22, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Officials Call For Ban Of ‘Euro Fatwa’ App Created By Muslim Brotherhood

Google and Apple are facing renewed scrutiny from European officials for their failure to remove—and ban in entirety—the Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored app, Euro Fatwa. The intensifying pressure comes after months of repeated government warnings that...

Press Release

October 21, 2020

Teacher Beheaded In Paris Suburb Terrorist Attack

Last week, Russian-born Chechen Abdoulakh Anzorov stabbed and decapitated a school teacher in a street in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. According to French officials, the 18 year-old attacker targeted Samuel Paty after Paty showed...

Press Release

October 21, 2020

Digital Services Act - A Vital Step Towards A Better Internet

As part of the European Digital Strategy, the European Commission announced a Digital Services Act (DSA) package that will be presented at the end of 2020. The DSA intends to modernize the current legal framework by proposing clear rules framing the...

Press Release

October 19, 2020

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Supporters Celebrate Paris Beheading Attack Online

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, ISIS supporters used a pro-ISIS RocketChat chatroom to...

Press Release

October 15, 2020

Ukraine Deports Americans Encouraging Neo-Nazi Terror Attacks

Ukraine has deported two American citizens who had belonged to the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (AWD) for attempting to establish a local AWD branch and trying to join a far-right Ukrainian military unit to “gain combat experience.” The AWD...

Press Release

October 14, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook Updates Hate Speech Policy To Ban Content Denying Or Distorting The Holocaust

On Monday, Facebook updated its hate speech policy to ban content that “denies or distorts” information about the Holocaust. The company claimed that its latest policy change “is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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