Washington Examiner: New Zealand shootings highlight social media's use as terrorism tool
"The spread of the footage from attacks that left 49 people dead provides the latest illustration of how digital platforms that enable anyone with a smartphone to instantaneously reach an audience of millions can be wielded by terrorist and hate groups. It's prompting immediate scrutiny of available safeguards and how readily they can be deployed. 'Reports say Facebook needed 17 minutes to remove the livestream. It is now emerging that the video is still circulating online, said David Ibsen, director of the international advocacy group Counter Extremism Project. 'The technology to prevent this happening is available. Social media firms have made a decision not to invest in adopting it.'"
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.