“It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over”: Extreme Right-Wing Foreign Fighters in Ukraine

In the late Summer of 2014, as I sat in the canteen of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) in Warsaw, a report on RT (Russia Today) caught my eye . It zoomed in on four Frenchmen who traveled to Donetsk to fight in the Ukraine war on...

ICYMI: Central Eastern Europeans and their Lack of Pathways to Global Jihad

On Friday, September 20, the Counter Extremism Project ( CEP ) and Bratislava-based think tank GLOBSEC released its newest collaborative report, (Few) Jihadis Without Jihad? Central Eastern Europeans And Their Lack Of Pathways To Global Jihad . The...

Ukraine Conflict: Motor for Right-Wing Extremism Around the Globe

In this video series, CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler and GLOBSEC's Kacper Rekawek discuss a forthcoming project on the conflict in Ukraine and right-wing extremism.

Tech & Terrorism: Cloudflare Admits to Potential Sanctions Violations

Website security company Cloudflare recently admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had potentially violated economic and trade laws by providing services to sanctioned individuals or entities blacklisted by the United States...

"The group has reportedly called for the deaths of European Parliament politician Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube chief executive officer Susan Wojcicki. Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project in New York, said: 'This is...

"A notorious neo-Nazi group has urged its members to attack police stations and threatened to murder chief constables, it was reported last night. Leaders of the group, called the Feuerkrieg Division, said: ‘The people working in these buildings are...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Newstalk ZB, New Zealand Radio

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with Newstalk ZB about Facebook's reactive, rather than proactive approach, when addressing extremist content online.

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler Discusses Facebook Delayed Rollout of Redirection Campaign

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks with Derek Cheng of Newstalk ZB in response to news that Facebook would direct New Zealand users who search for white supremacy pages to anti-hate groups to help them de-radicalise, a strategy...

"Facebook has been using real-life first-person shooter video footage to develop artificial intelligence that can more effectively auto-block the type of video that was livestreamed on March 15. Facebook has been widely criticised over the way it...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses Facebook's plan to expand to Australia a program that targets right wing extremism on its platform. The program was begun last year in the U.S. Schindler said it was "astonishing" that it took...