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Extremist Content Online: Blood & Honour and Combat 18 Maintain Online Presence
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 details the online presence for neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour and Combat 18, both...
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House Homeland Security Committee Takes Aim at Tech Industry’s Failure to Halt Spread of Online Extremist Content
CEP commended the House Committee on Homeland Security for holding a hearing on social media companies' efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. The hearing was called in the wake of March’s New Zealand mosque shootings—in which a...
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Tech & Terrorism: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Will be Ripe for Misuse
This month, Facebook announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency , the Libra, by mid-2020. Already, regulators in both Europe and the United States are expressing concern about its public policy implications . Cryptocurrency , already one of the...
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Extremism Spotlight: Abdullah al-Faisal’s Ties to Extremists
Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. In announcing his indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Faisal’s lectures, websites, and...
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CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid in Finale: “Companies Have to Start Taking More Responsibility for What They’ve Created”
CEP today released the finale of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the video, titled “ Responsibility ,” Dr. Farid calls on tech companies to take more...
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Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Groups in Europe Threaten Violence
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 details the 27 websites used by ISIS to spread violent propaganda videos and how the...
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Extremism Spotlight: Ahmad Musa Jibril’s Ties to Extremists
Ahmad Musa Jibril is an Islamist preacher well-known for being an influential jihadist voice in Syria and for having radicalized Khuram Shazad Butt, one of three London Bridge attackers who killed eight people and wounded almost 50 others on June 3...
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CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: Tech Companies Need “A Fundamental Change” to Tackle Extremist Content
CEP today released the eighth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled " Pressure Points ," Dr. Farid calls for a collective effort...
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Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists & Neo-Nazis Continue Thriving on YouTube
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 urges YouTube to strictly enforce its new policy for removing extremist videos, in...
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Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists
For more than 40 years, William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries has served as a “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists around the world. The book has directly inspired at least three terror attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City...
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