Australia has ordered five websites to remove extremist material, in an move to enforce its new law to combat online extremism. The new law holds social media companies, websites, and Internet service providers liable for fines of up to 10 percent of...
Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. In announcing his indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Faisal’s lectures, websites, and...
CEP today released a new resource detailing the Muslim Brotherhood’s established ties to more than 40 radical extremists, including terrorist groups, foreign fighters and extremism propagandists. The Brotherhood officially maintains a platform of non...
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the following today in response to comments made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding regulation of the tech industry, specifically, changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ( CDA ). In an...
CEP's new report, The Extreme Right on Facebook , documents Facebook’s failure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi pages that clearly violate its terms of service. CEP identified and monitored a small selection of 40 Facebook pages belonging to...
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement today in response to shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that read in part: "The attack on New Zealand Muslims today is a shocking and disgraceful act of terror. Once again, it has been...
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said the following in response to Facebook Executive Nick Clegg 's speech in Brussels. " Until Facebook starts to engage seriously with all of those concerned about extremism, as well as releasing the data needed to...
CEP, in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies ( CEPS ), launched a joint report analyzing the impact of Germany’s Network Enforcement Act ( NetzDG ). In the report, Germany’s NetzDG: A key test for combatting online hate...
CEP issued a statement and research today in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claims that the company removes 99 percent of extremist content on its platform, that read in part: “There is no way to independently verify Mr. Zuckerberg’s...
CEP called on members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has confirmed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to finally force answers to questions about a record of platform misuse. CEP...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 27, 2018, domestic terrorist Robert D. Bowers carried out an anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He fired on congregants as they gathered for worship, killing 11 people and wounding six others.
Today, Anjem Choudary & co-defendant Khaled Hussein appeared via video link for a preliminary hearing. Plea hearing… https://t.co/v424ivNqKh
RT @CEPinEurope: Early this year, @FightExtremism Strategic Advisor @LiamSD12 hosted a webinar to discuss the legacy of the fatwa, its wide…
#ISIS said that its leader was killed during "direct clashes" with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib province in… https://t.co/0yzf4KREJ1
#ISIS confirmed yesterday that its little-known top leader had been killed, the third time in less than two years t… https://t.co/mzP4N5l8Ek
"Controlling the risk of terrorism is a dynamic process but it has to survive off the page to be any use." A critiq… https://t.co/HadLKh39yG
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