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December 8, 2016

HBO’s VICE News Tonight program detailed the hashing technology that CEP developed with Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid, which is capable of detecting and removing extremist images, video, and audio content from Internet...

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December 7, 2016

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on VICE News

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses social media companies' announcement to remove extremist content from their platforms on VICE News Tonight.

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December 7, 2016

Just one day before President Barack Obama touted efforts to undermine the online reach of jihadist groups four tech giants — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google’s YouTube — announced that they will collaborate on a database of manually tagged...

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December 6, 2016

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on NPR

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid spoke with Aarti Shahani on NPR's "All Things Considered" regarding tech companies' announcement to remove extremist content online.

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December 6, 2016

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google, have announced they are going to work together to identify extremist content. Hany Farid helped to build that technology. He's a computer scientist at Dartmouth and an advisor to the...

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December 6, 2016

Tech Companies’ Hashing Technology a Step in the Right Direction, Raises Significant Questions

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, in a statement, said he was pleased that social media companies, with support from the European Union, are adopting technology that will help remove extremist content from their platforms. He noted that the...

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December 5, 2016

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Monday announced they had joined forces in an attempt to curb explicit terrorist imagery online. The move follows criticism from Brussels that big US social media groups have made insufficient effort to...

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December 5, 2016

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have pledged to work together to identify and remove extremist content on their platforms through an information-sharing initiative. Earlier this year Hany Farid, the computer scientist who helped develop...

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December 2, 2016

One Year After San Bernardino Attack: Path to Radicalization Little Changed

CEP released a statement on the one-year anniversary of the terror attack in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people. One of the attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook, Like a growing number of terrorists, was radicalized in part by the late al-Qaeda...

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December 1, 2016

According to press reports Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s terror rampage was memorialized in a Facebook posting in which the terrorist cited ISIS as his motivation, and the YouTube sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki as his inspiration. Last June I issued an urgent...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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