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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CBS News: CEP Deputy Director Lara Pham discusses a new CEP report showing that Google-owed YouTube's program to suppress extremist videos and promote counter-narrative content is "insufficient and inconsistent."
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An initiative by YouTube to minimize the exposure of videos advocating extremism is falling short, according to a new report from researchers with the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The report criticizes the effectiveness of YouTube's efforts to...
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CEP Deputy Director Lara Pham discusses a new CEP report showing that YouTube's program to suppress extremist videos and promote counter-narrative content is "insufficient and inconsistent."
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Tens of thousands of Isis videos, speeches and publications have been shared on an internet archive site despite repeated warnings that it is being exploited to spread terrorism. Isis content that remains accessible on archive.org includes a 124-page...
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Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia designated as a terror group by the U.S., is tapping a money-laundering ministate in Latin America that poses an escalating risk to U.S. national security, according to a report published Tuesday. The...
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Terrorists and criminals are able to pocket up to US $800 million a week or $43 billion a year from activities taking place in Latin America’s Tri-Border Area (TBA) according to a new report released today by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and...
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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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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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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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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...
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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