Tech & Terrorism: CEP Urges Facebook to Halt Lobbying Efforts to Stymie Government Oversight and Regulation

Last weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , called for governments and regulators to become involved in censoring harmful content online. However, Mr. Zuckerberg’s call was intentionally heavy on idealism and rhetoric, and light on specifics. Once...

CEP Statement Applauding Australia Parliament’s Passage of Legislation Regulating Extremist Content Online

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued a statement today commending the Parliament of Australia for passing l egislation regulating social media companies in the wake of the New Zealand shootings, that read in part: “Australia’s pioneering...

Cancel Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Reservation

The international Islamist network Hizb ut-Tahrir wants to bring its anti-Western rhetoric to a Chicagoland hotel. Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the “party of liberation,” has been linked to religious extremism around the world. Nonetheless, the group’s U.S...

"Far-right extremist groups from around the world have, for years, been quietly working behind the scenes to amplify their messaging through forging international alliances. And they’ll be building those bonds in person this weekend in Finland, at an...

"Australian lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that punishes internet companies for failing to promptly purge their platforms of 'abhorrent violent material,' placing new responsibilities on social media providers as a direct result of last month’s...

How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a first step toward...

“Facebook has found a novel solution to the never-ending deluge of negative headlines and news articles criticizing the company: Simply paying a British newspaper to run laudatory stories about it. On March 13, the series ran a feature headlined...

"But the Counter Extremism Project—an anti-extremism non-profit network based in the US—has highlighted YouTube’s continued refusal to remove Siege from its online library. 'I think it’s because they’re not taking the threat seriously,' said CEP...

"It is time for social media companies to get tough with Qatar-based Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, experts on extremism have said, as the controversial cleric is named in Arab News’ ongoing 'Preachers of Hate' series. Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst at...

“As Christchurch came to a standstill March 29, part of a memorial service for the 50 victims of a terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand two weeks earlier, questions were being asked about how far-right hatred is spread online, particularly...