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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.”...

In part five of CEP's nine-part video series, Senior Advisor and digital forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid explains the problem of fake news and how blame has to be with the social media companies...

In part four of CEP's nine-part video series, Senior Advisor and digital forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid explains how tech companies have failed in response to misuse of their platforms...

In part three of CEP's nine-part video series, senior advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses developing hashing technology to remove extremist content and tech companies' initial rejection...

In part two of a nine-part video series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid describes the internet, the model of technology and our responsibility to mitigate harm.

In part one of a nine-part video series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and incoming School of Information and EECS professor at UC Berkeley, introduces the problem of online extremism and how the tech...

CEP Senior Advisor and a leading expert on digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) about tech companies’ failure to prevent the reuploading of the New Zealand attack video...