A major victory in the fight against extremism was secured last month when YouTube announced that it had taken down the lectures and sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American who had turned into a firebrand preacher and notoriously effective recruiter...

Bloomberg TV: CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the importance of YouTube's decision to remove Awlaki videos and what actions should follow to remove other forms of terrorist and extremist content from the Internet

Instead of coming up with new clickable content and stories to discredit terrorist propaganda, why not make the radicals' toxic material much harder to find on the internet? Better yet, why not just remove it altogether from the web? Dr. Hany Farid...

WordPress.com has hosted hundreds of links to extremist videos, as well as propaganda pages from the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (Isil), according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US anti-terror think...

On October 31, 2017, a 29-year-old Uzbek man drove a rented pickup truck into people on a bicycle path in New York City, killing eight people and injuring 12. The perpetrator, Sayfullo Saipov, was an avid fan of ISIS propaganda. According to the...

Losing Raqqa: ISIS’s PR Crisis

In the latest blow to ISIS’s military prowess, U.S.-backed forces recaptured Raqqa, Syria, on October 17. In July, the terror group lost control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which it captured in 2014. These major territorial losses present a...

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace on the Fox News Rundown

CEO of the Counter Extremist Project Ambassador Mark Wallace speaks with Fox's Chris Wallace about extremists finding a platform on social media and the way forward to combat extremism online.

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace discusses the importance of Google/YouTube's decision to remove thousands of lectures and sermons of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, and CEP's multi-year campaign to pressure the tech giant to take action.

Countering Hezbollah, Iran’s Expansion

The Trump administration recently unveiled its new strategy to counter the threat Hezbollah and Iran pose to the United States and its interests abroad. Despite talk of designating the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist...

Ambassador Mark D. Wallace says removal of Anwar al-Awlaki's sermons and lectures on YouTube will save lives, but it still remains too easy to find extremist and terrorist propaganda on the Internet and social media platforms.