Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists

For more than 40 years, William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries has served as a “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists around the world. The book has directly inspired at least three terror attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City...

Products and Consumers: Dr. Hany Farid Explains

In video seven of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses how tech companies have a responsibility to consumers and can no longer say "we're just a platform".

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Do We Want to Reward the Bad Behavior of [Tech] Companies?”

CEP today released the seventh of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , an incoming professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled “ Products & Consumers ,” Dr. Farid urges end users to question the...

CEP Statement on YouTube Policy: Focus on Removing Videos Denying Historic Violence & Violent Content

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement today in response to Google-owned YouTube announcing a new policy that read in part: "Instead of simply enforcing its long-standing community guidelines consistently and transparently, YouTube has...

CEP Special Advisor Jesse Morton writes: "I’m a publishing pioneer: In April 2009, I launched the first English-language online jihadist magazine. A lot has changed since. I spent 3½ years in prison, where I deradicalized. I now work with Mitch...

Extremism Spotlight: Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Ties to Extremist Individuals & Organizations

Notorious al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP ) propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011, but his death did not silence him. Awlaki’s lectures continued to live on in the Internet and inspire extremism and violence...

Advertising: The Business Model of the Internet

In part six of a nine-part video series, CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, asserts that the current business model for tech companies, free services in exchange for personal data, has created...

“A jihadi from the so-called British 'Beatles gang' says Sally Jones WAS killed by an airstrike along with her 12-year-old son. Alexanda Kotey said the so-called 'White Widow' was killed in a 2017 air strike. They both died in bombardment that was...

"Online platforms like 8chan and Gab have helped far-right extremist ideologies go global. But when the alt-right wants to put an academic imprimatur on racist ideas, it turns to a small publishing house in Budapest. For the last decade, Arktos Media...

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Online Extremism, Child Pornography, Child Sex Trade … It’s the Wild West Out There”

CEP today released the sixth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled “ Advertising ,” Dr. Farid asserts that the current business...