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August 20, 2018

The European Union is reportedly planning to impose stricter regulations on social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter over the removal of online terrorist propaganda. According to new draft regulations to be published next month...

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August 20, 2018

No longer the carrot, now the stick: the European Commission is considering imposing an hour-long deadline for social networks to remove terrorist and extremist content after voluntary measures appear to have failed. On pain of heavy fines, the...

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August 20, 2018

Now, according to a report in the Financial Times, the European Commission has decided to scrap a voluntary approach to ensure firms remove content. This will apparently be replaced with a much starker draft regulation, which will be published in...

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August 20, 2018

The European Commission is planning to order websites to delete extremist content on their sites within an hour to avoid the risk of being fined. The regulation would affect Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among others. The crackdown would lead to the...

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August 20, 2018

Social media companies will be fined if they fail to remove extremist content from their sites within an hour of being alerted by police, according to proposals under discussion in Brussels. The European Union is planning to act after increasing...

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August 19, 2018

The campaign started with the cyber equivalent of a massive airstrike: law-enforcement agencies from eight countries, moving in unison to smash two of the main propaganda organs of the Islamic State. In the two-day operation in April, police seized...

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August 17, 2018

On Anniversary Of Barcelona Attacks, ISIS Continues Its Expansion

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Barcelona terror attack, which killed 16 people and wounded more than 100 others. A day before the vehicle attack in Barcelona, a house used to make TATP bombs in Alacanar exploded. The attack was claimed...

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August 16, 2018

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: Experts Question Facebook’s Misleading Claims On Content Moderation

Since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in April to Congress, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has repeatedly called out the company for its overly optimistic and misleading claim that 99 percent of ISIS and Al Qaeda content is removed from...

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August 13, 2018

Malians went to the polls in the country's runoff presidential election on Sunday with threats of terror attacks on their minds, just as they were two weeks ago during the first round of elections when terror attacks disrupted several polling...

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August 11, 2018

During a recent three-month period, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) conducted a limited study to determine how ISIS content is being uploaded to YouTube, how long it is staying online, and how many views these videos receive. CEP’s study reveals...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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