The National: Cat gifs, memes and emojis: the internet culture of ISIS
“Telegram has been criticised for not acting fast enough to identify and block ISIS and other extremist groups from its platform. In February, the Counter Extremism Project said six years after the app’s founding, it remained 'a terrorists’ platform of choice for the dissemination of online extremist content'. 'The messaging application’s public-facing and private components are essential in allowing extremists the ability to propagate themselves online,' project researcher Joshua Fisher-Birch said.”
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.