"However, it would be wrong to ignore its role in breeding terrorism, explained the executive director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), David Ibsen: 'It is also a medium that can be misused to spread hate and violence. In the last decade, we...

Tech & Terrorism: Big Tech Spends Millions to Shape Possible Regulation of Extremist Content Online

During the first quarter of 2019, Facebook, Google and Twitter spent approximately $8 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies on potential regulations regarding cybersecurity; moderating terrorist, violent, extremist and "controversial"...

"When Radio Wehrwolf, a popular podcast network among militant neo-Nazis, was shut down by its web host, the site was effectively homeless. Mere weeks later the podcast was back, and a simple WHOIS search reveals it’s registered by a little-known...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Re-Emerges in a Widely Shared Propaganda Video

CEP's Extremist Content Online this week s potlights ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s re-emergence in a video posted online one week after the horrific Easter Sunday terrorist attacks targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. The video was found...

ISIS Leader and Former Muslim Brotherhood Member Appears for the First Time in Five Years

ISIS released its latest propaganda video last week, featuring ISIS leader and former Muslim Brotherhood member Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . Baghdadi’s jihadist ideology can be traced back to his days in the Muslim Brotherhood while a student in Iraq...

"In light of that, the Trump administration’s proposed designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization is a recalibration of American foreign policy that has been a long time coming. A report by the Counter-Extremism Project states...

"Almost seven weeks after a terrorist attack on a New Zealand mosque was streamed live on Facebook, copies of the video are still circulating on Facebook and Instagram. The existence of the videos, some of which have been on the platforms since the...

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “There is Real, Measurable Harm Happening From Moving Fast And Breaking Things”

CEP today released the second in a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, titled "Internet." In the video, Dr. Farid warns of how the tech industry’s and Facebook’s famed “Move Fast and Break Things” mantra is no longer...

CEP Senior Diplomatic Advisor Marc Ginsberg writes: "The crumbled ISIS caliphate has bequeathed the world a terrible inheritance: Thousands of captured ISIS fighters and their families, many of whom remain dedicated to ISIS. And with the apparent re...

"The Trump administration is apparently nearing a formal designation of the international Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological progenitor of modern radical Sunni Islamism throughout the world, as a terrorist group. To put it mildly, this is...