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June 22, 2020

Extremist Content Online: Dylann Roof Glorified By White Supremacists On Telegram

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, multiple white supremacist Telegram channels and chan users...

Press Release

June 19, 2020

CEP-KAS Webinar: On The Threat of Deep Fakes To Democracy And Society

For years, the influence of fake news and the manipulation of public and political perception has been a threat to political systems. During the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories have risen to new...

News

June 22, 2020

Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project Ian Acheson writes: "But how do we spot, track and stop the descent of people into violent extremism before they act? A foolproof system would destroy our civil liberties — the very thing the terrorist...

News

June 22, 2020

"Director of the Counter Extremism Project think tank, Hans-Jakob Schindler, said there was still a significant terror threat in Europe. 'Only a few weeks into the pandemic, ISIS began calling again on its members to conduct attacks again,"'Mr...

News

June 21, 2020

"The Counter Extremism Project reports that 'Tajideen was arrested on an INTERPOL warrant five days after his indictment at Casablanca’s airport in Morocco while traveling from Guinea to Beirut...'"

Videos

June 20, 2020

The Future of Foreign Fighters in Ukraine with Kacper Rekawek | Part 1

More than 17,000 foreign fighters were involved in the war in Ukraine. The majority of them were Russians but there were also significant foreign fighter mobilisations in Western Europe. This video looks at two such mobilisations: one that brought...

Press Release

June 19, 2020

U.S. Demonstrators Contend With Uptick In Vehicular Attacks

Recent demonstrations across the U.S. have been marred by at least 19 cases of individuals allegedly using vehicles as weapons to drive into crowds, according to witnesses and police. In at least eight of these cases, drivers face charges over what...

Press Release

June 19, 2020

Three Years After Finsbury Park Mosque Attack: CEP Welcomes Commission For Countering Extremism’s Efforts To Combat Hate Crimes and Hate Speech

Three years ago, Darren Osbourne drove a van into a crowd of worshippers outside The Finsbury Park Mosque, killing one and wounding ten people. Osbourne was not a devout ideologue. He had become radicalized in less than a month through the rapid...

CounterPoint Blog

The Far Right on U.S. Campuses

The modern far right has set its sights on America’s young people by targeting college campuses for recruitment and intimidation. White nationalist groups such as the American Identity Movement (AIM) and more nebulous far-right movements continue to...

Press Release

June 17, 2020

CEP Applauds Justice Department’s Move To Limit Section 230 Legal Protections For Tech Industry

(New York, N.Y.) – Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Executive Director David Ibsen and CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid released the following statement today in response to proposed changes announced by the U.S. Department of Justice to roll back...

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On September 26, 2018, an improvised explosive device planted at the foot of a bridge exploded, killing eight soldiers in the lead vehicle of a Burkinabe military convoy traveling in northern Burkina Faso. 

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