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May 13, 2018

Abedi had learned how to make his bomb from a 30-minute film that he watched on YouTube, featuring a balaclava-clad terrorist identified as Muhammad Al-Muhajir speaking in Arabic, but which had English subtitles. YouTube removed the film but, as...

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May 11, 2018

We are exhausted by spectacular failures to protect user’s privacy, allowing advertisers to illegally target housing and job ads based on race and age, promoting fake news designed to incite violence and disrupt elections, and allowing terror-groups...

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May 10, 2018

Brands are finding out that YouTube isn't the only platform where their ads pop up next to Islamic State-related videos—they're also on smaller outlets like Dailymotion, a video site owned by French media giant Vivendi. Last week, D.C.-based...

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May 10, 2018

At least a dozen U.S.-designated terror groups maintain a presence on Facebook, a review by Bloomberg Businessweek shows. That includes Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle East, Boko Haram in West Africa, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...

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May 7, 2018

Facebook’s “suggested friends” feature is helping jihadists around the world connect with one another to forge new terror networks, according to a new study. Researchers with the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project studied the social media...

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May 6, 2018

Facebook (FB) is being accused of inadvertently helping Islamist extremists connect and recruit new members. A new report in The Telegraph cites research suggesting that the social media giant connected and introduced thousands of extremists through...

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May 6, 2018

Facebook is connecting more than just distant relatives who post too much about their children, at least per a recent study that concludes it is connecting new affiliates to the Islamic State’s digital networks. According to the Telegraph...

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May 5, 2018

Facebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists to one another, via its 'suggested friends' feature, it can be revealed. Researchers, who analysed the Facebook activities of a thousand Isil supporters...

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May 2, 2018

Hezbollah’s Influence in Lebanon

The Iranian-sponsored Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has grown militarily and politically despite U.N. resolutions and international agreements demanding its disarmament. In coming parliamentary elections May 6, Hezbollah will attempt to further...

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April 30, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The recent hearings at the US Senate and House of Representatives have not quashed the troubling issues surrounding Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his teams of lawyers and strategists projected concern...

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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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