Extremist Content Piles up on YouTube; Platform Struggles to Keep Pace

YouTube is not effectively curbing extremist content, according to various experts and policymakers interviewed by NPR ’s Tim Mak last week. YouTube’s algorithms are designed to keep viewers hooked and suggest progressively more extreme videos to...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: Drip, Drip, Drip as Facebook's Problems Continue

On Tuesday, Facebook Vice President for Policy Solutions Richard Allan was grilled before a hearing comprised of nine countries : Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, France, Belgium and Britain. Described as a “ first-of-its-kind...

The Regulation of Tech Companies: A Key Test for Combatting Hate Speech

On November 29, 2018 in Berlin, Germany, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) teamed up to discuss NetzDG, one year after it's gone into effect.

“Greek Education Minister Costas Gavroglou said the ultra-extreme rightist Golden Dawn, whose 15 lawmakers and dozens of members are in the fourth year of a trial on charges of running a criminal gang, is trying to recruit teen students to its ranks...

“All this month, we've been reporting on toxic content - what it is, what's to be done about it, both questions that YouTube has thought long and hard about. For years, the YouTube videos of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki inspired terrorists...

ICYMI: New Report on Germany’s NetzDG Online Hate Speech Law Shows No Threat of Over-Blocking

CEP, in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies ( CEPS ), launched a joint report analyzing the impact of Germany’s Network Enforcement Act ( NetzDG ). In the report, Germany’s NetzDG: A key test for combatting online hate...

This article in the Germany's Tagesspiegel, describes efforts to improve Germany's Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), which came into force about one year ago. "A recently published report by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the...

"A new generation of far-right Europeans is deploying slick techniques to avoid being called neo-Nazis. David Ibsen, the executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, says far-right groups in France are among those to have borrowed heavily...

CEP Research Referenced During Parliamentary Hearing on Far-Right

On November 20, 2018, Labor Member of Parliament Stephen Doughty referenced a CEP research report during the UK Home Affairs Committee session ,"Hate crime and its violent consequences."

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and William Echikson of the Centre for European Policy Studies write: "In reality, concerns that NetzDG would lead to censorship have proven unfounded. Its introduction has precipitated a trickle rather than a flood...