Tech & Terrorism: Facebook Blocks Measures Aimed At Curbing Presence Of Extremist Groups

(New York, N.Y.) – Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook executives deliberately “weakened or blocked” efforts to address and correct systematic software flaws after discovering its algorithms were facilitating the growth of...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in May 2020

Following is the May installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly update on the ongoing attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. The April update, which detailed ISIS’s killing of at least 34 Syrian regime...

Register Now: Webinar On Regulating Cryptocurrencies To Mitigate Risks Of Misuse For Terrorism Financing

The discussion concerning the risk of cryptocurrencies being misused for the financing of terrorism and other nefarious purposes has intensified over the last years. Both the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as well as the European Union have been...

“'These groups really want to capitalize on civil disorder, what they view as chaos,' said research analyst Joshua Fisher-Birch with the Counter Extremism Project. 'They want to manipulate that situation. They want to take advantage of it.'”

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Accelerationists And Neo-Nazis Celebrate Violence in Minneapolis

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. CEP researchers found that white supremacist accelerationists and neo...

Virginia Man Indicted For Conspiring With Somali Terror Group

This week, former Northern Virginia resident and FBI most-wanted terrorist Liban Haji Mohamed, was indicted in federal court on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Somalia-based terrorist group, al-Shabab. The complaint alleges...

Tech & Terrorism: Coronavirus Misinformation Across Internet Shows Industry’s Failings

Extremist groups spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have moved away from popular social media platforms to other sites to sow discord and disperse their radical ideologies. Extremists are increasingly...

CEP Webinar: Can Convicted Terrorists Be Rehabilitated?

Many terrorist offenders imprisoned in the European Union and the United States will be released in the coming years. The significant increase in convictions of Foreign Terrorist Fighters since 2014 has created a larger than ever terrorism-related...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler's study on 'Terrorist Financing and Social Media' published by the Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW), featured by the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zürich.

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Manifesto Siege Re-Emerges For Sale On Lulu Despite Previous Removal for TOS Violation

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, three separate uploads of James Mason’s neo-Nazi manifesto...