Tech & Terrorism: Australia Begins Enforcing its Online Extremist Content Law

Australia has ordered five websites to remove extremist material, in an move to enforce its new law to combat online extremism. The new law holds social media companies, websites, and Internet service providers liable for fines of up to 10 percent of...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "This week marks the 18th anniversary of the horrible attacks of September 11, 2001. These attacks marked both the high point of the international terror operations planned and directed by al-Qaida...

18 Years After 9/11, Al-Qaeda Remains Malevolent Force Worldwide

Eighteen years ago, 19 al-Qaeda operatives hijacked U.S. commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airplane crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania. The...

Extremist Content Online: Last Edition of ISIS Magazine Youth of the Caliphate Released

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, a pro-ISIS group, Abd al-Faqir, released what it claims to be the last edition of the Youth...

Fifth Year of Yemen War Continues with no End in Sight

The ongoing war in Yemen between the internationally recognized Yemeni government and the Iran-backed Houthis continues into its fifth year. The Houthis began taking control of parts of the country in mid-2014. In 2015, the threat to the Yemeni...

“Patrik Mathews, a Canadian Armed Forces member who is now suspended from duty, has been linked to the group and missing for almost two weeks. The 26-year-old Mathews was exposed as a member of The Base through a series of explosive stories in which...

"Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and image-forensics expert whose lab received a grant from Facebook related to its deepfake detection research, said the competition is a big step toward solving an important problem. He said Facebook will also...

"Major tech companies formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism in 2017 to coordinate the removal of terrorist content. They more recently signed onto the Christchurch Call, a voluntary pledge to eradicate extremist content. But industry...

Extremist Content Online: Another Pro-ISIS Channel Found on YouTube

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, a pro-ISIS account that linked to propaganda appeared on YouTube and an unofficial media...

"Suicide bombings and other deadly attacks committed by Boko Haram terrorists over the past decade have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people, while more than two million others have been displaced. These figures do not even...