Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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“A 2016 explosion that killed 224 people aboard a plane leaving Egypt for Russia might be linked to British Airways’ recent decision to cancel flights to Egypt. CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler joins host J.J. Green to discuss the suspension...
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"The Counter Extremism Project has identified European Ethno-nationalist and white supremacy groups. Its report found that: 'More than 70 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, ethno-nationalist and white supremacist movements in Europe continue to...
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"Children born to wives and fighters of the crumpled ISIS caliphate who are now left to fend for themselves in wretched refugee camps throughout Syria are being radicalized at increasingly younger ages, an ominous trend that's emerged as the newest...
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CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms. This week, CEP identified an ISIS video from War and Media Agency on YouTube. Additionally, the terror group released several videos from Tunisia...
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"This is one reason why there’s been some success in keeping extreme content like ISIS-related pro-terrorism posts and child pornography off the big platforms—the tech companies operate a shared database of flagged terrorist content, and can in many...
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This month, CEP identified a new WordPress website for a militant neo-Nazi survivalist network known as The Base, which has advocated for acts of terrorism against critical U.S. infrastructure and promoted violence against Jews and minorities. The...
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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’s edition details the emergence of a new ISIS video from its self-proclaimed state in Turkey...
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Copies of Audiobook uploads of the neo-Nazi manifesto Siege and The Turner Diaries , a so-called “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists, seem to have been taken down by YouTube. The apparent removal of these videos represents a policy...
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"The Council of Conservative Citizens site is just one of the 391 websites we ran through web-based tools to determine which tech companies are providing services to groups like it. We reached out to a handful of non-profit organizations that work to...
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"Mastodon was launched as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of Nazis and harassment. But two years later, the biggest Mastodon instance is now Gab, a far-right social media network known widely as a gathering...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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