Extremist Content Online: Cloudflare Provides Services for White Supremacist Content, Including New Zealand Attack Video

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. CEP identified two white supremacist websites, one dedicated to the neo-Nazi manifesto Siege and the...

"Deepfakes are becoming more difficult to detect as the technology used to create them advances, said Hany Farid, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has a financial stake in Truepic and whose research on media...

"With that in mind, we used lists of organizations promoting hate from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hope Not Hate, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, and the Counter Extremism Project, in addition to channels recommended on the white supremacist...

Tri-Border Countries Enter into Alliance Against Terrorism

On July 22, Argentina , Brazil , and Paraguay entered into an alliance with the United States to counter “illicit activity” and terrorism in the Tri-Border Area (TBA), the region that straddles the three South American countries’ borders. The “three...

“A 2016 explosion that killed 224 people aboard a plane leaving Egypt for Russia might be linked to British Airways’ recent decision to cancel flights to Egypt. CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler joins host J.J. Green to discuss the suspension...

"The Counter Extremism Project has identified European Ethno-nationalist and white supremacy groups. Its report found that: 'More than 70 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, ethno-nationalist and white supremacist movements in Europe continue to...

"Children born to wives and fighters of the crumpled ISIS caliphate who are now left to fend for themselves in wretched refugee camps throughout Syria are being radicalized at increasingly younger ages, an ominous trend that's emerged as the newest...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Group Returns to YouTube

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms. This week, CEP identified an ISIS video from War and Media Agency on YouTube. Additionally, the terror group released several videos from Tunisia...

"This is one reason why there’s been some success in keeping extreme content like ISIS-related pro-terrorism posts and child pornography off the big platforms—the tech companies operate a shared database of flagged terrorist content, and can in many...

Tech & Terrorism: In Piecemeal Approach, WordPress Removes Neo-Nazi Website

This month, CEP identified a new WordPress website for a militant neo-Nazi survivalist network known as The Base, which has advocated for acts of terrorism against critical U.S. infrastructure and promoted violence against Jews and minorities. The...