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April 6, 2018

CEP Demands Immediate Action To Combat Fake News

In advance of the upcoming Congressional hearings featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , CEP called on Facebook and other tech companies to take a more aggressive approach to the spread of fake news enabled by widely available...

Press Release

April 5, 2018

CEP To Facebook: Zuckerberg Must Explain Failure To Remove Extremist Content

CEP called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to respond to the proliferation of extremist and terrorist content on Facebook during his upcoming appearances at Senate and House committee hearings. CEP believes Zuckerberg must answer for Facebook’s...

Press Release

April 4, 2018

Counter Extremism Project On Upcoming Facebook Hearing: Time To Answer For Platform Misuse

CEP called on members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has confirmed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to finally force answers to questions about a record of platform misuse. CEP...

Press Release

March 21, 2018

Two Years After Brussels Attacks

The deadliest act of terrorism in Belgium’s history took place on the morning of March 22, 2016 in Brussels, when ISIS suicide bombers killed 32 people and wounded more than 300 others in attacks at the Zaventem airport and the Maelbeek metro station...

Press Release

March 15, 2018

U.K. Lawmakers Highlight YouTube’s Shocking Inability to Remove Content by Banned Group National Action

CEP commended the U.K. parliamentarians of the Home Affairs Select Committee for exposing YouTube’s gross failure to remove videos from the banned far right group National Action from its platform 15 months after being reviewed by moderators. CEP...

Press Release

March 14, 2018

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Turkey

On the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood, CEP is publishing resources on the history and recent activities of the group in Egypt and Turkey, Since its inception in Egypt 90 years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood has fought for the...

Press Release

February 23, 2018

Extremism and Counter-Extremism in Lebanon

Decades of sectarian fighting have undermined Lebanese sovereignty and allowed global extremist groups like Iranian proxy Hezbollah to flourish in the country. CEP's report on extremism and counter-extremism in Lebanon highlights the forces that led...

Press Release

February 14, 2018

Taxpayers Should Not Bear the Cost of Online Extremist Content

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a short statement regarding the U.K. Home Office's development of new technology to combat online extremist content that read in part: “Unfortunately, it is concerning that the tech industry’s failure to act...

Press Release

February 6, 2018

Extremist Propagandists and Ideologues Maintain Presence Online

CEP's new resource, Guide to Online Propagandists, profiles online radical thought leaders who are active on social media platforms like YouTube and encourage violence and hate. While YouTube in November 2017 banned the videos of notorious al-Qaeda...

Press Release

January 26, 2018

One Year After Quebec City Mosque Attack

CEP is providing resources on extremism and counter-extremism in Canada on the anniversary of the January 29 attack at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City. Right-wing extremist Alexandre Bissonnette is accused of carrying out the attack...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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