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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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Extremist Content Online: 151 Podcast Episodes From Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistant Movement Found On Spreaker
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 a Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)...
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Taliban Rejects Afghan Government’s Prisoner Release Offer
Success Of U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Appear Doubtful (New York, N.Y.) – Yesterday, the Afghan government announced the release of 100 Taliban prisoners in accordance with the phased releases required under an agreement signed on February 29 between the...
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Tech & Terrorism: Despite Terrorist Ties, Hizb ut-Tahrir Hosts Khilafah Conference On Facebook Live
On Sunday, the American chapter of noted Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) hosted its annual Khilafah (“Caliphate”) Conference using Facebook Live. HT is banned in at least 13 countries worldwide and is most notoriously known as the...
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