“Fortunately, Farid is thinking about some of society’s most menacing issues.“Hany is creative, unrelenting and above all, a problem-solver,” said Mark Wallace, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and current CEO of the Counter Extremism Project. “While others saw an insurmountable challenge, Hany saw an opportunity,” Wallace said. To understand Farid’s work in combating online extremism — primarily videos of beheadings and other terror group recruitment efforts — it’s helpful to first understand his work in combating the equally ugly and technically similar problem of online child pornography.”