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Jesse Morton of Parallel Networks presents "Ctrl+Alt+Del-Hate" - a new project to recreate a counter polarization, hate and far right-wing e-magazine - at an event at New America. The project is sponsored by Counter Extremism Project...

Statement and highlights from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce's hearing, "Fostering a Healthier Internet to Protect Consumers" on October 16, 2019. Dr. Hany Farid is a Senior Adviser of the Counter Extremism Project, developer of PhotoDNA and eGLYPH, and a professor at...

Statement and highlights from the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing, "Online Imposters and Disinformation" on September 26, 2019...

In this video series, CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler and GLOBSEC's Kacper Rekawek discuss a forthcoming project on the conflict in Ukraine and right-wing extremism...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with Newstalk ZB about Facebook's reactive, rather than proactive approach, when addressing extremist content online...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks with Derek Cheng of Newstalk ZB in response to news that Facebook would direct New Zealand users who search for white supremacy pages to anti-hate groups to help them de-radicalise, a strategy already in place for US users.

In the last installment of CEP's video series on extremism online, Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley says, "I think that companies have to start taking more responsibility for what they've created."...

In video eight of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid explains how if tech companies can't decide that they should do better, the public should decide for them...

In video seven of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses how tech companies have a responsibility to consumers and can no longer say "we're just a platform"...

In part six of a nine-part video series, CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, asserts that the current business model for tech companies, free services in exchange for personal data, has created an Internet “wild west.”...