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February 19, 2019

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Videos Continue to be Uploaded to the Internet In 2019

CEP reports on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Today’s edition exposes ISIS videos demonstrating executions, explosives construction and violent propaganda...

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February 15, 2019

CEP Statement: WordPress Removes Neo-Nazi Website After CEP Publishes Findings

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released the following statement today after a website from the white supremacist group Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) was taken offline by website management and blogging platform WordPress. The removal comes on the...

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February 12, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Online Reach Could Inspire New Generation of White Supremacists

C ontinuing its series chronicling the most egregious online extremists, CEP is now turning to The Turner Diaries , a novel considered to be the “bible” of the American white power movement. A work of fiction first published in 1978, it describes a...

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February 12, 2019

In Case You Missed It: GoDaddy Refuses to Take Down Terror Group’s Website

Domain registrar and webhosting companies have played an increasingly larger role in the proliferation of online extremism. Recently, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spotlighted a website from the terror group Kataib Hezbollah (KH), which since...

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February 11, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazis Continue Recruiting

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Today’s edition details the creation of the new neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division, a post calling for...

Press Release

February 7, 2019

ICYMI: CEP Spotlight On Siege Manifesto Elicits YouTube Response

CEP spotlighted Google-owned YouTube’s blind eye toward the neo-Nazi manifesto Siege’s proliferation on its platform. Even though it is well known to inspire two active neo-Nazi groups, the Atomwaffen Division and the Sonnenkrieg Division, one can...

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February 5, 2019

CEP Challenges Mark Zuckerberg To Discuss Tech Issues With Top American & European Experts

CEP today extended an invitation to Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join top American and European experts for a public conversation about the threat posed by extremist content that proliferates on Facebook. This invitation follows...

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February 5, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Radical Islamist Preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril Circumvents Terms of Services

CEP is spotlighting Ahmad Musa Jibril , a Michigan-based Salafist preacher known for his support of violence and role in radicalizing one of the 2017 ISIS London Bridge attackers. In his online lectures, Jibril is careful to not specifically call for...

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February 4, 2019

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Utilizes Dark Web to Remain Online

CEP reports weekly on methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms. Featured in this edition, CEP researchers located a site on the dark web for the pro-ISIS Electronic Horizon Foundation, also known as Horizon...

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February 4, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Convicted Terrorist Abdullah al-Faisal Maintains Online Reach

CEP is spotlighting ISIS propagandist Abdullah al-Faisal, classified by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center as a “violent extremist ideologue” and by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist who foments...

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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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