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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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Internet groups such as Facebook, Google’s YouTube and Twitter need to do more to stem the proliferation of extremist content on their platforms, the European Commission said after a meeting on Wednesday. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non...
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“Iran’s development of proxies since the U.S. invasion of Iraq was overshadowed by the extended maelstrom that has battered Iraq, Syria and Yemen. But fueled by funding, weapons and training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), this...
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Tech Against Terrorism’s Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP), unveiled November 29 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, was billed as an effort to provide practical advice to help tech companies and startups combat terrorists’ and...
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ICYMI: Following a multi-year CEP campaign, Google/YouTube drastically reduced the number of sermons and lectures from former al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki. In a New York Times op-ed, CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and President Frances...
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Google has AGAIN allowed a step-by-step IS bomb-making video to be shared on its networks.The tech giant blocked the clip on YouTube after the Manchester Arena attack but it has resurfaced on other platforms.The video, presented by a masked IS...
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Two years ago, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out a horrific shooting attack at a holiday party sponsored by Farook’s employer, the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, killing 14 people. During the attack, the...
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A major victory in the fight against extremism was secured last month when YouTube announced that it had taken down the lectures and sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American who had turned into a firebrand preacher and notoriously effective recruiter...
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Bloomberg TV: CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the importance of YouTube's decision to remove Awlaki videos and what actions should follow to remove other forms of terrorist and extremist content from the Internet
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Instead of coming up with new clickable content and stories to discredit terrorist propaganda, why not make the radicals' toxic material much harder to find on the internet? Better yet, why not just remove it altogether from the web? Dr. Hany Farid...
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WordPress.com has hosted hundreds of links to extremist videos, as well as propaganda pages from the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (Isil), according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a US anti-terror think...
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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