CEP Policy Paper on Financing Terrorism and Social Media to be Presented at April 29 Webinar

The global networks of ISIS and al-Qaeda continue to operate, plan, and execute attacks during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The arrest of an ISIS-linked cell in Germany on April 15, 2020 is a reminder of that reality. The suspects were also...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS, Neo-Nazi Groups Using Instagram To Advocate Violence

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. This week, CEP researchers located multiple pro-ISIS and neo-Nazi...

“'Neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram channels have increased their calls for destabilisation and violence related to Covid-19,' Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, told Al Jazeera. 'These channels are...

Persecuted Uighur Population In China At Risk Of Coronavirus Exposure In Xinjiang Camps

China’s continued detention of more than one million Uighur’s in what U.S. officials have called “concentration camps” has put the persecuted population at heightened risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. More than 50 coronavirus cases...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "...one figure stated as ‘current’ stands out – and not in a good way. The number of people who the security service has investigated for links to terrorism has doubled from 20,000 in 2017 to 40,000 now."

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project, says that groups like the ‘Nordic Resistance’ and ‘Hundred Handers’ have sought to increase their membership by capitalising on the pandemic, and ‘Generation Identity’ has used the...

CEP Senior Director, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, spoke with J.J. Green of WTOP's The Hunt about five Tajik nationals arrested by German police on suspicion they were members of an Islamic State cell planning attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Germany.

"Williams spomína Joshuu Fishera-Bircha, výskumného pracovníka v projekte boja proti extrémizmu, podľa ktorého skupiny ako „Nordic Resistance“ a „Hundred Handers“ sa snažia ťažiť z pandémie a skupina „Generation Identity“ využíva krízu na podporu...

Extremist Content Online: 151 Podcast Episodes From Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistant Movement Found On Spreaker

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. This week, CEP researchers located a Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)...

"'Many of them currently see the US in a situation in which confidence in the state is declining, in addition to the great economic downturn,' says Joshua Fisher-Birch from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) to SPIEGEL."