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Tech & Terrorism: One Month After New Zealand Massacre Broadcasted on Facebook Live, Company Revises Livestream Policy
CEP has documented Facebook’s reactionary policy changes since November 2007, exposing how the company typically makes improvements following public accusations, scandal or pressure from governments. This week, Facebook announced that it will begin...
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Extremist Content Online: CEP Continues Finding Christchurch Attack Content 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 videos from the Christchurch terror attack are still being uploaded...
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European Parliament Passes Meaningful Vote on Terror Content File
The European Parliament today voted in favour of regulation preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the regulation was "a positive start in the fight against digital radicalisation, propaganda...
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Smart Regulation and Smart Technology
CEP and the UN Office of Counter Terrorism will have a brown bag lunch and roundtable discussion on April 25 from 1-2:30 hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN. The topic of the free event will be the regulatory...
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Sudan’s President and Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood-Linked National Congress Party Ousted by Military
CEP today released updated resources on Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP ), the successor organization to the Muslim Brotherhood -affiliated National Islamic Front (NIF ). Recently deposed Sudanese President and NCP chairman Omar Hassan Ahmed al...
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CEP Commends Speaker Pelosi for Waving in “New Era” for Tech Industry Regulation
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the following today in response to comments made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding regulation of the tech industry, specifically, changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA ). In an interview...
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Tech & Terrorism: Presence of Banned Neo-Nazi Content Demonstrates YouTube’s Failure to Enforce its Own Rules
This week, CEP revealed that supporters of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (AWD ) have re-uploaded AWD’s videos yet again on YouTube. Despite the tech giant banning AWD’s channel more than a year ago, YouTube failed to prevent the upload of...
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Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban
During today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, when asked what Google was doing to stop far-right propaganda from spreading on YouTube, Counsel for Free Expression and Human Rights Alexandria Walden stated that for “borderline” content, YouTube...
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Facebook & Google Must Take Responsibility for Proliferation of Extremist Content Online
CEP today called on members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary to use their Tuesday hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism to hold the tech industry accountable for its failure to permanently remove extremist and terrorist content in...
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LIBE Committee Passes Critical Vote on the Terror Content File
CEP issued statements today following the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on the draft report on Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David...
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