Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Group Using GiveSendGo to Crowdfund Propaganda Campaign

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located a crowdfunding campaign on GiveSendGo...

"« Il est important que l’on projette de juger des femmes “retournées” [rapatriées], non seulement pour appartenance à l’EI mais pour les crimes contre les yézidis », commente Sofia Koller, de l’ONG américaine Counter Extremism Project. "

"Briefs filed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.), the Counter Extremism Project, and a group of former national security officials argue that the tech companies that spread illegal content through an algorithm should not be covered by Section 230... The...

Tech & Terrorism: Section 230 Liability Shield To Face Scrutiny This Week At U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in two cases that raise questions about liability shields afforded to tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The cases are Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc. v...

"The TTP also links with the Afghan Taliban and terrorist group Al Qaeda, notes think tank Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The CEP says, 'As an ally of the Afghan Taliban, the TTP also fought the US-backed Afghan government prior to the latter’s...

ISIS Women in Court: Monika K. – Crowdfunding for the Islamic State?

The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This new CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees. An overview of the state of prosecutions can be found here (available in English and German) and...

Dutch Prosecutors Allege Repatriated Woman Targeted Yazidis, Committed Crimes Against Humanity

Last week, prosecutors in the Netherlands announced Hasna Aarab, having been accused of crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in 2015 while a member of ISIS, will face trial along with 11 other women for crimes related to their...

"He helped build the group's operational capacity and trained some of the hijackers who took part in the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, according to the US Counter Extremism Project."

"European Eye on Radicalization (EER) was pleased to host a joint event with the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) recently about how Western states have handled domestic extremists and terrorists, the far-Right and Islamists."

ICYMI: CEP Experts React To U.K. Prevent Strategy Review

The British Government last week accepted all 34 recommendations of an independent review of the U.K.’s Prevent strategy. The review, led by Independent Reviewer William Shawcross, criticized the counter-extremism program’s effectiveness thanks in...