The Guardian: Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley's job. Is that why it's failing?
Hany Farid, senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, agrees. 'They spend huge resources developing technology to find the data about users to target advertising,’ he said. ‘I’m 100% sure that if they put even a fraction of that effort into building an early warning system they could make an impact.’ It takes minutes to find a plethora of terrorist content, including a Facebook page with a recruitment video celebrating the martyrdom of a Canadian jihadi (which Facebook deemed OK when reported). On YouTube it’s easy to find videos of English-speaking Isis fighters calling for American radicals to stab a kafir with a knife, throw him off a building or run him over with a car.
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.