Conference: Legal & Administrative Instruments to Counter the XRW Threat | Alexander Ritzmann

This virtual conference organized by CEP on behalf of the German Foreign Office aimed to explore this issue in greater depth. The event highlighted a range of instruments governments have found useful in countering the domestic threat posed by...

Conference: Legal & Administrative Instruments to Counter the XRW Threat | Carlo Chiaromonte

This virtual conference organized by CEP on behalf of the German Foreign Office aimed to explore this issue in greater depth. The event highlighted a range of instruments governments have found useful in countering the domestic threat posed by...

"'Just as the blood libel was historically used to justify horrific crimes against Jews, this type of propaganda in the United States has led to lynch mobs, among other forms of extrajudicial punishments against minorities, such as fire bombings...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS & White Supremacist Content Depicting, Encouraging Violence Found On Facebook & Instagram

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, Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram respectively were found...

Fishmongers Hall Inquest: Week 4

Last week was the fourth week of the inquest into the deaths of two young people murdered at Fishmongers Hall, London by convicted terrorist Usman Khan. Khan was under state supervision after release from prison at the time of the attack on 29...

"The Alliance to Counter Crime Online and the Counter Extremism Project have spent years tracking how violent groups like IS, Mexican cartels and Hezbollah utilize Facebook. It found that Hezbollah, for example, 'has used Facebook to broadcast...

"However Liam Duffy, a strategic advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), argued we must focus on the victims of ISIS like the Yazidi community. The Yazidis, a small religious group concentrated in Iraq who practice a pre-Islamic faith, were...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'Facebook didn't want to make the decision because it's politically loaded,' said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and dean of its School of Information. 'So they kick it...

"Around 900 British citizens joined ISIS before the group’s self-styled 'Caliphate' in Syria and Iraq was crushed. However according to Liam Duffy, a strategic advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), it would be 'foolish' to claim this won’t...

Tech & Terrorism: Antisemitism Continues To Proliferate On Facebook

Facebook executives have attempted to cultivate an image for the company centered on the appearance of high standards of responsibility, transparency, and consistency, but it consistently fails in all three areas. Facebook has failed to sufficiently...