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"On this week’s episode of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter Extremism Project, says some of the content discusses a “race war” in the U.S."

"This is material that is, when you look for it and you know what to look for, very easy to find. Obviously on the global social media platforms, the algorithm helps. So if you identify one terrorist content, the algorithm actually suggests more terrorism content to you."

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May 17, 2023
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "In the past, without social media and the internet, if you had some wacky conspiratorial idea, until you actually found someone who held the same beliefs, it was a real effort. You had to go to conventions to meet them, you had to travel. Now all you do is you turn on your computer and Facebook, or Instagram, or Twitter, or TikTok, the algorithm helps you to find them...
The way these platforms are set up is to make you as the user happy and stay on the platform by giving you what you want, not confronting you with uncomfortable, other opinions—not broaden your horizon, narrow your horizon..."

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February 15, 2023
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