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Tech & Terrorism: Twitter Reverses Course, Suspends Hamas and Hezbollah
Twitter has suspended internationally designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah from its platform. The decision came in response to criticism and pressure from U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer , Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick...
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Extremist Content Online: ISIS Declares Leadership Replacements Following the Deaths of Baghdadi, Muhajir
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’s edition found that ISIS’s Al Furqan Media Foundation formally announced the deaths of their...
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Extremist Content Online: Dell Advertisement Precedes ISIS Propaganda On Russian Streaming Platform
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’s edition found that a Dell advertisement appeared alongside an ISIS Amaq News propaganda...
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Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s Death After His Reappearance Online A Blow To ISIS
On October 26, 2019, U.S. forces carried out an operation in Syria’s Idlib province that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who had served as ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliph since June 2014. U.S. officials confirmed Baghdadi’s identity...
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Afghanistan Rocked By Terror Attacks Following Aborted Peace Process
In the aftermath of failed peace negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, the terror organization is continuing its relentless barrage of near-daily attacks on Afghanistan’s security forces. On October 22, 2019, the Taliban stormed a...
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U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Introduces Legislation To Help Curb Online Extremism
This week, the U.S. House Homeland Security committee unanimously advanced the National Commission on Online Platforms and Homeland Security Act ( H.R. 4782). The legislation, introduced by Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, would establish a 12...
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Anjem Choudary’s Extremist Network Rebuilds in Year After Radical Cleric’s Early Release from Prison
In the year since Anjem Choudary’s early release from prison, the radical Islamic cleric and convicted ISIS supporter has inspired a revival of al-Muhajiroun , the U.K.-banned extremist group he co-founded in 1996. In its report, Anjem Choudary’s...
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Tech & Terrorism: Atomwaffen Division Video Reuploaded To YouTube After Removal
YouTube is unable or unwilling to keep known extreme neo-Nazi propaganda off their website. An Atomwaffen Division (AWD ) propaganda video clip has been reuploaded to YouTube, most likely by the original uploader . In both cases, the account has...
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Extremist Content Online: Twitch Streamed German Synagogue Shooting Proliferating on Telegram
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’s edition finds the Yom Kippur synagogue shooting in Halle, Germany that was livestreamed on...
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Tech & Terrorism: Content Removal Policies Must be Applied Consistently Across all Types of Extremism
Facebook recently made modifications to its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, in an attempt to limit extremism on its platform. Amongst other changes, the company updated its definition of terrorist organizations from “acts of violence...
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