Tech Companies’ Hashing Technology a Step in the Right Direction, Raises Significant Questions

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, in a statement, said he was pleased that social media companies, with support from the European Union, are adopting technology that will help remove extremist content from their platforms. He noted that the...

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Monday announced they had joined forces in an attempt to curb explicit terrorist imagery online. The move follows criticism from Brussels that big US social media groups have made insufficient effort to...

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have pledged to work together to identify and remove extremist content on their platforms through an information-sharing initiative. Earlier this year Hany Farid, the computer scientist who helped develop...

One Year After San Bernardino Attack: Path to Radicalization Little Changed

CEP released a statement on the one-year anniversary of the terror attack in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people. One of the attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook, Like a growing number of terrorists, was radicalized in part by the late al-Qaeda...

According to press reports Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s terror rampage was memorialized in a Facebook posting in which the terrorist cited ISIS as his motivation, and the YouTube sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki as his inspiration. Last June I issued an urgent...

"The former New York city police commissioner is joining the advisory board of the Counter Extremism Project, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization formed to combat the growing threat from extremist ideology, a spokesman told POLITICO New York....

Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Joins the Counter Extremism Project

CEP announced the addition of former NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly to its Advisory Board. CEO Ambassador Mark Wallace said about Kelly: “He brings vast, unparalleled experience, knowledge and expertise to the issues central to our organization...

Abdul Razak Ali Artan was regarded as a good student who was friendly and said hello to his neighbours. Police identified Artan as the attacker who drove his car into pedestrians at Ohio State University before attacking people with a knife. The...

The FBI believes that the Ohio State University student who attacked a group of people using his car and a knife Monday might have been inspired by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the Islamic State, Special Agent in Charge Angela Byers said...

Ohio State Attack Points Again to Awlaki’s Radicalizing Influence

CEP released a statement condemning Monday's attack at the Ohio State University that injured 11 people and noted that the perpetrator, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was inspired in part by the ideology of the late al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. CEP again...