"The New York Times reported on Saturday that Facebook Messenger, which is not encrypted, accounted for nearly two-thirds of reports last year of online child sexual abuse imagery. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that Facebook as a whole...

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi James Mason Disingenuously Attempts To Distance Himself From Previous Calls for Violence

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, neo-Nazi James Mason spoke out against mass shootings in a podcast, but his remarks...

"Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions. But it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year. Hany Farid...

CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid Testifies Before House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

Statement and highlights from the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing, "Online Imposters and Disinformation" on September 26, 2019.

Extremist Content Online: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Releases Second Video in 2019

On September 16, 2019, ISIS’s al Furqan Media Foundation released an address by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . Titled “And Say, Act,” the speech was widely released on Telegram and various audio, video, and file sharing platforms...

Guns and Glory: Criminality, Imprisonment, and Jihadist Extremism in Europe

Terrorist groups are recruiting and radicalising criminals in an effort to carry out attacks on European soil. A new joint study by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP ) and the European Policy Centre (EPC ), Guns and Glory: Criminality, Imprisonment...

"The issue of radicalization remains particularly problematic in Belgium and the United Kingdom, say two researchers from the European Policy Center who have studied the links between crime, imprisonment and jihadism in ten European countries. In...

“It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over”: Extreme Right-Wing Foreign Fighters in Ukraine

In the late Summer of 2014, as I sat in the canteen of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) in Warsaw, a report on RT (Russia Today) caught my eye. It zoomed in on four Frenchmen who traveled to Donetsk to fight in the Ukraine war on...

ICYMI: Central Eastern Europeans and their Lack of Pathways to Global Jihad

On Friday, September 20, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP ) and Bratislava-based think tank GLOBSEC released its newest collaborative report, (Few) Jihadis Without Jihad? Central Eastern Europeans And Their Lack Of Pathways To Global Jihad . The...

Ukraine Conflict: Motor for Right-Wing Extremism Around the Globe

In this video series, CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler and GLOBSEC's Kacper Rekawek discuss a forthcoming project on the conflict in Ukraine and right-wing extremism.