For years, the influence of fake news and the manipulation of public and political perception has been a threat to political systems. During the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories have risen to new...
Child exploitation content on the Internet has dramatically increased, and current efforts to prevent and remove it by tech companies and law enforcement are not enough. In a recent New York Times article, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior...
CEP today released the fourth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid. In this week’s video, titled “Misuse,” Dr. Farid states that tech companies have time and again failed to recognize misuses of their platform by...
ICYMI: CEP is making available short summaries and links to significant recent news stories and resources. For example, one story highlights the discovery of 19 different ISIS videos on websites and platforms, including a clip instructing on how to...
CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed on June 5 by CNN’s Jake Tapper about the eGLYPH technology and the reluctance of Internet and social media companies to utilize it. In an editorial in...
HBO’s VICE News Tonight broadcast a segment that detailed the workings of CEP's hashing technology, developed with Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid, that is capable of removing extremist images, video, and audio content...
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...
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law held a hearing today on algorithmic amplification and its role in spreading extremist content on social media platforms. Among those testifying were Facebook’s Vice President...
As calls for reform to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act continue, lawmakers in Congress have begun shifting their approach from attempting major reform to tailoring it to individual types of content. For instance, one proposal would...
CEP Senior Advisor Explains New Technology for Fighting Online Extremism
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On March 25, 2017, as Bangladesh Armed Forces raided a militant hideout in South Surma Upazila, Bangladesh, militants detonated two bombs in a crowd of 500-600 onlookers. The attack, claimed by ISIS, killed four civilians and three police officers, and injured 50 others.
Among the defendants for the 2016 bombings is Salah Abdelslam, a French citizen who was also involved in the Novemb… https://t.co/DBytmVVQCX
Wednesday is the anniversary of the March 2016 Brussels attacks, during which suicide bombers hit the Brussels’ Zav… https://t.co/meBTQ9N9hF
RT @CEPinEurope: YouTube is still broadcasting racist song videos which inspired terrorist Anders Breivik. Read the article including comme…
RT @CEPinEurope: Writing for @unherd, Strategic Advisor for @FightExtremism, @LiamSD12, argues that the attacks carried out by jihadist Moh…
Leaders of #Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (#PIJ) had called for continued “resistance.” Last year, officials… https://t.co/f3Y4mTqmp3
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