How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will host an event to present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a...

ICYMI: CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, in NPR Interview, Says Suspend Facebook Live Following Mosque Shootings

CEP Senior Advisor and a leading expert on digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed by National Public Radio about tech companies’ failure to prevent the reuploading of the New Zealand attack video. Said Farid: "The repeated uploading is an...

“According to researchers at the Counter Extremism Project who compiled the exhaustive report on the proliferation of neo-Nazi pages on Facebook, after submitting multiple reports to the Facebook moderators over the offensive pages, they were told...

The Isis caliphate, which once stretched for thousands of miles across Iraq and Syria, has been declared defeated. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed group of Kurdish and Arab fighters, announced on Saturday that it had captured the last...

"But while YouTube is trying to remove violent videos, their site is passively helping in radicalising the disaffected in other ways, according to experts. It does so by creating a rabbit-hole effect, drawing viewers in to related videos with an...

"Neo-Nazi groups have been allowed to remain on Facebook because the social media giant found they did not violate its 'community standards', it has been revealed. Counter Extremism Project report, seen exclusively by The Independent, showed the same...

Extremist Content Online: A Week After Facebook Livestream, New Zealand Shooting Video Lives Online

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms. This edition spotlights the tech companies that allowed the Christchurch terrorist’s live-streamed attack to remain online for over a week and...

CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid on NPR

CEP Senior Advisor and a leading expert on digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) about tech companies’ failure to prevent the reuploading of the New Zealand attack video.

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses the failure of Facebook to prevent more than 300,000 copies of the New Zealand massacre video from being reuploaded. "The repeated uploading is an absolute failure and its inexcusable because we have the...

"Though acts of terrorism take place in the real world, they attain a kind of online afterlife. Materials like those from the recent Christchurch shooting proliferate as supporters upload them to any media platform they can reach. Lawmakers in Europe...