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The UK’s home secretary Amber Rudd announced plans on Tuesday to change the law to be able to sentence people who repeatedly view terrorist content online for up to 15 years in jail. “Amber Rudd is correct, extremist content is too easily accessible...
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CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the latest facts surrounding the investigation of the Las Vegas massacre.
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CEP Conference in Brussels to Highlight Solutions to Spread of Extremism
CEP will be hosting the Building Alliances--Preventing Terror policy conference on in Brussels, Belgium on October 17 and 18. The event will bring together senior policymakers, academics, industry representatives, NGOs, and the private sector to...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit dedicated to tackling extremism, alleged that it has found more than 70,000 videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, a dead radical imam whose sermons are said to have inspired atrocities including the 7/7 bombings...
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CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS
CEP President Fran Townsend on CBS News to discuss the Las Vegas shooting investigation.
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CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the investigation into Sunday night's mass shooting at a Las Vegas outdoor country music festival.
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CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the October 31 New York City terrorist attack with host Charlie Rose.
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Anwar al-Awlaki’s Influence on U.S. and European Extremists
Six years after his death on September 30, 2011, the teachings of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, prevalent on platforms like YouTube, continue to radicalize and encourage acts of terrorism in the U.S. and in Europe. In Anwar al-Awlaki's Ties to...
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Google’s Counter-Narrative Program Falls Far Short of Combating Awlaki Material on YouTube
The continued presence of lectures by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on YouTube contradicts Google’s stated commitment to counteract the dangerous role played by extremist and terrorist content on its video-sharing platform, CEP said in releasing an...
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Anwar al-Awlaki Videos Ubiquitous on Google’s YouTube
Six years after his death, American-born cleric and al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki continues to radicalize U.S. and European extremists in part due to the ubiquity of his sermons and lectures on Google-owned YouTube, CEP said in releasing the...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.