Google wants you to believe it is doing its utmost to counter violent extremist content on its YouTube platform. Yet the tech company has been criticized for their record of turning a blind eye to the proliferation of such propaganda, and we should...

Lawyers from Facebook, Google and Twitter faced tough questions from Congress about how foreign actors used their platforms to influence the 2016 election. Facebook now says around 130 million Americans were exposed to content created by alleged...

ISIS Claims Credit for New York Deaths

ISIS officially claimed credit late on November 2 for the October 31 attack in Manhattan, in which Sayfullo Saipov drove a rental truck down a busy bicycle path, killing eight people. CEP has translated from Arabic and analyzed ISIS’s announcement...

Key differences between Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the New York City truck attack and claims for previous terror attacks have caught the eye of counterterror officials, who are trying to determine what it might mean for the state of...

Law Enforcement Officials Reveal NYC Attacker Inspired by ISIS Online Propaganda

CEP said today that the trove of ISIS images and videos found on the cell phone of New York City terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov demonstrates the ubiquity of online radicalizing materials and the ongoing unwillingness of tech companies to take...

The October 4 attack in Niger that claimed the lives of four U.S soldiers – as well as their interpreter and four Nigeriens – remains under official investigation amid a firestorm of controversy and confusion. While the Pentagon has yet to point...

CEP Applauds Rep. Michael McCaul for Demanding Tech Companies Remove Radicalizing Content

CEP today applauded Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, for insisting that tech companies do more to remove the kind of radicalizing propaganda apparently utilized by Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Bloomberg

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller spoke with Emily Chang on Bloomberg about social media & tech company hearings on the hill on November 1, 2017.

CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS

On November 1, 2017, CEP research featured and CEP President Fran Townsend discusses what is known after the New York City Attack, on CBS This Morning.

CEP President Fran Townsend on Charlie Rose

CEP President Fran Townsend spoke with Charlie Rose about the New York City truck attack on October 31, 2017.