FACEBOOK is still broadcasting sickening terror videos of jihadists torturing and executing prisoners, a Daily Express investigation reveals today. Some had been online for months and viewed thousands of times. Others had been uploaded in the past...

Time for Europe to Designate All of Hezbollah

Europe has a Hezbollah problem. A year after a suspected Hezbollah bus bombing killed seven in Bulgaria in July 2012, the European Union designated Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization. But the EU drew a distinction between Hezbollah...

ISIS’ Tactics Shift On The Battlefield & Over The Internet

On and off the battlefield, ISIS has proven itself to be especially resilient and adaptable. With the terror group having lost large swathes of its territory, especially in Mosul and Raqqa, they have shifted to tactics both old and new. They have...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: White Supremacy Extremists Continue Leveraging Facebook As Unite The Right 2 Arrives

Sunday, August 12 marks the scheduled return of Unite The Right 2, a sequel to last year’s rally, where a vehicle attack carried out by a white supremacist killed one woman and injured at least 30 others. Previously, the Counter Extremism Project...

ISIS Attacks Carry on, as Regulators Worldwide Grapple With Terrorism

On July 29, a group of Westerners cycling through Tajikistan were attacked, resulting in four killed, including two Americans, a Swiss citizen and a Dutch national. Three more were injured in the attack, which ISIS quickly claimed credit for. The...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "During a recent three-month period, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) conducted a limited study using its own video-matching technology and YouTube’s API to identify the presence on YouTube of a small...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: With Charlottesville Anniversary Approaching, Far-Right Extremism Maintains Hold on Facebook

August marks the first anniversary of the tragic events in Charlottesville – and despite all the uproar that followed, Facebook’s promises to take more action against hate groups have rung hollow. The Guardian reports that the same actors involved in...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Sirius XM

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller speaks with Sirius XM's Chief DC Correspondent Olivier Knox about online extremism and CEP's report analyzing ISIS content on YouTube.

CEP Statement On Revelations of Google’s Plan to Relaunch Censored Search Engine in China

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement in response to reports about Google’s plans to relaunch a censored version of its search engine in China to meet that authoritarian government’s demands to limit free speech that read in part:...

ICYMI: CEP Study Documents YouTube’s Failure to Effectively and Permanently Remove Extremist Content

CEP, to better understand the prevalence of ISIS videos on YouTube, conducted a three month study using a web crawler and its own video-matching technology, eGLYPH. CEP searched for the presence on YouTube of a small sample of 229 previously...