Tech & Terrorism: Google Sues Germany Over Hate Speech Law

This week, Google filed a lawsuit in administrative court in Germany to challenge a portion of the country’s expanded 2018 Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG). NetzDG regulates online content moderation and requires online platforms to remove...

U.S. Investigating Qatar For Alleged IRGC Financing

The U.S. State Department has reportedly launched an inquiry into an allegation that Qatar’s royal family has supplied funds to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The investigation...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Neo-Nazis are the fastest growing cadre of violent extremists in our prisons, and now yet another offender motivated by far right ideology has entered our creaking jail system. Last week, Andrew Dymock was...

No Justice, No Peace? Northern Ireland’s Amnesty Fiasco

It’s not easy being secretary of state for Northern Ireland. The province, still unreconciled after a 30-year insurgency that ended in 1998, also sits on the remaining fault line of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. The British...

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary of 2011 Norway Attacks

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 several celebratory posts from...

Hamas’s Public Relations Offensive

As demonstrated by the recent spike in violence, the terror group Hamas continues to pose a threat to the lives of Israeli and Palestinian citizens. In May, Hamas fired more than 3,300 rockets at Israeli cities and towns, killing 10 people during an...

CEP statement quoted: "...survivors of Breivik's attacks had voiced concern regarding his 'status as an inspirational figure among far-right extremists.' '[This status] underlines the need for greater action to target the dissemination of known...

"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says ISIS is slowly gaining strength."

CEP Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Norway Attacks

It has been 10 years since Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by detonating a car bomb in central Oslo, before shooting dead 69 people attending a summer camp on the island of Utøya. The attacks represented the deadliest violence in Norway...

U.K. Lifts Public Speaking Ban On Radical Islamic Cleric Anjem Choudary

Restrictions preventing radical British cleric Anjem Choudary from speaking in public were lifted on Monday following the expiration of government-imposed conditions on his release. Choudary, co-founder of the now-banned extremist network al...