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New CEP Report: Career Break or New Career? Extremist Foreign Fighters in Ukraine
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) published a new report today that analyzes the profiles of individuals that joined the conflict in the Ukraine from abroad. The study, Career Break or New Career? Extremist Foreign Fighters in Ukraine, focuses on...

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Germany Designates Iran-Backed Hezbollah As A Terrorist Organization In Its Entirety
Today, Germany designated Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, banning all of its activities in the country. The announcement by the Federal Ministry of the Interior came hours after German authorities raided properties in Bremen...

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Register Now: CEP Webinar on Terrorist Content Online Regulation in the EU and Lessons Learned from Germany’s NetzDG Law
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to join us in a May 6 webinar discussion about European regulation of extremist and terrorist content online.

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CEP-GLOBSEC Webinar: How To Map The Muslim Brotherhood’s Presence In An Uncharted Region?
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Bratislava, Slovakia-based think tank GLOBSEC invite you to join us in a webinar discussion, launching the first report on mapping Muslim Brotherhood activities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

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Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Propaganda Site Reemerges One Month After Takedowns
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. This week, a pro-ISIS website containing violent propaganda and...

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Tech & Terrorism: YouTube Moves To Undermine Its Program Protecting Advertisers From Extremist Videos
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported on efforts by Google-owned YouTube to restrict the platform’s “brand safety partners” from being able to share critical information about advertising on its video platform. According to the report, YouTube...

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White Supremacists Glorify Timothy McVeigh On 25th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing
White supremacists this week celebrated Timothy McVeigh for his role in orchestrating what remains the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history—the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The attack, which took...

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CEP Policy Paper on Financing Terrorism and Social Media to be Presented at April 29 Webinar
The global networks of ISIS and al-Qaeda continue to operate, plan, and execute attacks during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The arrest of an ISIS-linked cell in Germany on April 15, 2020 is a reminder of that reality. The suspects were also...

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Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS, Neo-Nazi Groups Using Instagram To Advocate Violence
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. This week, CEP researchers located multiple pro-ISIS and neo-Nazi...

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Persecuted Uighur Population In China At Risk Of Coronavirus Exposure In Xinjiang Camps
China’s continued detention of more than one million Uighur’s in what U.S. officials have called “concentration camps” has put the persecuted population at heightened risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. More than 50 coronavirus cases...
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