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CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Do We Want to Reward the Bad Behavior of [Tech] Companies?”
CEP today released the seventh of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , an incoming professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled “ Products & Consumers ,” Dr. Farid urges end users to question the...
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CEP Statement on YouTube Policy: Focus on Removing Videos Denying Historic Violence & Violent Content
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement today in response to Google-owned YouTube announcing a new policy that read in part: "Instead of simply enforcing its long-standing community guidelines consistently and transparently, YouTube has...
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Extremism Spotlight: Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Ties to Extremist Individuals & Organizations
Notorious al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP ) propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011, but his death did not silence him. Awlaki’s lectures continued to live on in the Internet and inspire extremism and violence...
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CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Online Extremism, Child Pornography, Child Sex Trade … It’s the Wild West Out There”
CEP today released the sixth 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 “ Advertising ,” Dr. Farid asserts that the current business...
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CEP to Release New Resources Detailing Links Between Extremism & Online Radicalization
Earlier this year, CEP highlighted the online presence of dangerous extremist propagandists and notorious extremist content with links to violence in its Extremism Spotlight series. Continuing to allow this material to remain online to radicalize...
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Tech & Terrorism: Facebook Spin Machine Goes Into Overdrive
Earlier this month, an Associated Press investigation exposed whistleblower claims made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Facebook mislead the public about its 99 percent extremist content removal rate. The whistleblower...
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John Walker Lindh’s Release Raises an Opportunity & Risk
Tomorrow marks the release of John Walker Lindh , an American captured in Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban just after the September 11 terrorist attacks. CEP has warned of the societal crisis facing America as more jihadist convicts like...
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CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Blame has to be with the Social Media Companies that are Designed to Promote” Fake News
CEP today released the f ifth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid, titled "Fake News." Dr. Farid asserts that the blame for the proliferation of fake news online has to be shouldered squarely by tech companies like...
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Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Continues Uploads 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 finds that several tech companies, including Google-owned YouTube, have failed to...
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Zuckerberg’s 99 Percent Myth: Extremist Content Removal Claims False & Misleading
Since 2017, Facebook has announced to the public, shareholders and the U.S. Congress that it removes “99 percent” of Al Qaeda and ISIS-related content from its platforms. However, a recent Associated Press investigation into Whistleblower claims to...
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