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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CEP is releasing updated resources on ISIS Strategist and Spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, whose death was announced by the terror group but has yet to be confirmed. Adnani led ISIS’s sophisticated use of social media to propagandize, recruit...
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CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the targeting of ISIS leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani by a U.S. airstrike.
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Social media networks have too few people to monitor and shut down the volume of Islamic State propaganda accounts. Today, a Dartmouth professor has created a tool to flag violent, extremist videos and recruitment tools and keep them off social media...
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CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the reported death of ISIS Senior Strategist and Spokesperson Abu Mohammed al-Adnani and its possible ramifications.
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Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, "second in command" to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in Aleppo. The Counter Extremism Project lists Adnani as the leader of ISIS's Emni group, a unit that orchestrates attacks outside of the Middle East. The U.S...
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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid is interviewed about online extremist propaganda and CEP's new technology that can quickly and efficiently remove terrorist images, videos and audio messages from the Internet and social media platforms.
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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid discusses disrupting the dissemination of extremism-related content on social media platforms.
CounterPoint Blog
Abu Muhammad al-Golani, leader of the Nusra Front, appeared on video July 28 to announce his group’s formal separation from al-Qaeda and its rebranding as the “Levantine Conquest Front.” Don’t believe it. The separation was as loving a political...
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CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses CEP's new technology that will allow Internet and social media companies to quickly remove extremist content from their platforms.
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CEP Spokesperson and Senior Advisor Tara Maller discusses CEP's technology for fighting online extremism.
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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