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“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...
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"A former head of counter-terrorism in the UK's Foreign Office has said Irish Isil bride Lisa Smith should be detained if she returns to Ireland for her own safety. Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador to Ireland, said Ms Smith could be...

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Extremist Content Online: Videos From New Zealand Shooting Remain Online
CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Today’s release shows that two weeks after the New Zealand shootings, the infamous video is still being...
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"The ISIS territorial “caliphate” may have crumbled, but the terror group's heart beats on for at least as long as its illusory leader evades capture or death -- and Iraqi intelligence officials insist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 47, is alive and in hiding...
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"Irish prison officers are to be trained to spot and stop signs of radicalisation among inmates. The Department of Justice says the move is part of its plan to deal with a potential increase in radicalisation and extremism. Ian Acheson, a senior...
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"In recent weeks a number of web hosting services have shut down several major online neo-Nazi meeting grounds, Motherboard has learned. In perhaps the biggest takedown of all, Fascist Forge, a Facebook-like site for online Nazis, disappeared for a...

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ICYMI: Neo-Nazi Groups Allowed to Stay on Facebook Because They ‘Do Not Violate Community Standards’
CEP's new report, The Extreme Right on Facebook, documents Facebook’s failure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi pages that clearly violate its terms of service. CEP identified and monitored a small selection of 40 Facebook pages belonging to...
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"For 80-year-old Kiptenai Kosgei, Shadrack Kipkoech used to be his little boy. He’s far from that now. They say he is radicalised. What’s more, he now supports Al-Shabaab. The Counter-Extremism Project states that Kenya is a prime location for al...
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"Two internet hosting companies have removed a white supremacist web forum after they were notified of the racist content by the Counter Extremism Project, an anti-extremism group. DreamHost and Hostinger suspended the Fascist Forge forum after the...

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Tech & Terrorism: Tech’s Self-Regulation Fails to Set Standards for Removing Extremist Content
The recent New Zealand attacks have once again made clear that the tech industry’s preferred paradigm of self-regulation has failed. Tech companies have been unable or unwilling to establish clear standards of what constitutes impermissible extremist...
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