"Facebook said it "quickly" removed a live video from the suspected gunman in twin mosque shootings in Christchurch that killed at least 50 people. But the livestream lasting some 17 minutes, according to some reports, was shared repeatedly on...

CEP: Law Enforcement Acted Quickly, Properly, In Investigation & Arrest of Kim Anh Vo

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and President Frances F. Townsend released a statement followinging the arrest of Kim Anh Vo by the FBI, which read: “CEP is grateful to all of the law enforcement agencies whose investigation led to the arrest of...

CEP Honors Victims of Madrid Train Bombings, Calls for Legislation to Prevent Future Attacks

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement to mark the 15th European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism and the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, which killed 193 people. The statement read in part: “The coordinated...

"A student at Wadham College was suspended by the university after revealing he tried to recruit Oxford students for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist extremist organisation. Danial Farooq, a third year engineer, described his wish to 'rebuild' the...

CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid on Newsy

CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid speaks with Willie James Inman of Newsy about a U.S. data privacy law that may be on the horizon.

"Tech giants will be under continued scrutiny this year as both Congress and presidential candidates advocate for major reforms to an industry operating without much federal regulation. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in early March that his...

"Between 200 and 400 online platforms are currently hosting content that could lead to terrorist radicalisation, the European Commission has said. Dr Hany Farid, a senior adviser for Counter Extremism Project (CEP), recently told EURACTIV that most...

ICYMI: “Facebook, YouTube and social media are failing society. Pull their ads until they change.”

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, the world’s leading authority on digital forensics and hashing technology, argued in an op-ed published in USA Today on March 4 that it was time for the corporate CEO’s whose advertising dollars propel social media...

CEP German Language Report Calculates the Costs of Extremism

In the German language report Die Kosten des Extemismus (Costs of Extremism) , the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), in partnership with the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS), tackles the complex task of defining violent extremism...

CEP Senior Policy Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "Social media companies have failed us. How do we fix an industry that has proven that it is unwilling or unable to govern itself? We have tried scathing exposes in the media, #deleteFacebook...