NewEurope: Are Internet companies complicit in promoting hateful and harmful content?
Child pornographers, human traffickers, cyber-criminals, terrorists and extremists have weaponized the Internet. Technology companies have been slow to recognize, admit to, and respond to the illegal activities on their platforms that have resulted in devastating consequences. For example, the ISIS video “The Religion of Kufr is One,” which shows multiple executions by firearms and a hanging – clear violations of YouTube’s terms of service – has been uploaded and removed from YouTube at least six times since May 31, 2016. Analysts at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) most recently found this video on September 11, 2017, where it already had 42 views. Technology companies must do better.
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.