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  • U.K. Online Harms White Paper Consultation Questions Submission

    The U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture, and Sport and Home Office jointly published the Online Harms White Paper in April 2019. CEP submitted its responses to several of the White Paper’s consultation questions.
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  • (Few) Jihadis Without Jihad? Central Eastern Europeans and Their Lack of Pathways to Global Jihad

    Throughout 2019, GLOBSEC, within the scope of a new project developed in cooperation with CEP, mapped out and thematically analysed the pathways to jihadism of the 300+ individuals included in the original dataset.
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  • The Input: Pathways to Jihad, Vol. 2

    This report picks up where the previous report published within the framework of the project run by GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project, The Input: Pathways to Jihad. A Thematic Analysis of 310 Cases, left off in early April 2019.
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  • The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists

    CEP documents the book’s role in the deaths of 248 individuals. The most deadly of these attacks was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168. Police found a copy of the book in the car of bomber Timothy McVeigh.
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  • The Input: Pathways to Jihad

    GLOBSEC studied the phenomenon of a crime-terror nexus in Europe. It developed a dataset of 348 individuals arrested for terrorism offences, expelled for alleged terrorist connections, or who died while staging terrorist attacks in Europe in 2015, the peak year of European jihadism.
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  • Ahmad Musa Jibril's Ties to Extremists

    Ahmad Musa Jibril is an Arab-American Islamist preacher who has reportedly influenced Westerners to fight in the Syrian conflict. Though the number of foreign fighters traveling to Iraq and Syria has decreased since 2014, Jibril’s message continues to resonate with extremists.
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  • The Far Right on Facebook

    Even though the company explicitly bans hate speech and hate groups in its Community Standards, Facebook appears to have a reactive approach to removing neo-Nazi and white supremacist content from its platform.
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  • Digital Developments: Extremists' Use of Modern Communication Tools

    The rapid adoption of state-of-the-art communication tools has been critical to the organization, expansion, and success of terrorist networks. Terrorists use modern communication technology in myriad ways, from fundraising, radicalization, and recruitment, to issuing threats, inciting violence, and planning attacks.
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  • Abdullah al-Faisal’s Ties to Extremists

    Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. Faisal’s lectures, websites, and videos have incited “untold numbers of people around the world to take up the cause of jihad,” according to the U.S. government.
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  • Die Kosten des Extremismus

    Das Brandenburgische Institut für Gesellschaft und Sicherheit (BIGS) wurde vom CEP beauftragt, eine Kurzstudie über die Kosten des Extremismus am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu erstellen.
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  • Integration fördern, Radikalisierung verhindern

    Das Counter Extremism Project (CEP) und die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) präsentieren eine Handreichung für Lehrer, die sich radikalisierenden Schülern gegenüberstehen sehen.

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  • Germany's NetzDG: A Key Test for Combatting Online Hate

    Under Germany’s NetzDG, online platforms face fines of up to €50 million for systemic failure to delete illegal content. The law has not provoked mass requests for takedowns. Nor has it forced internet platforms to adopt a ‘take down, ask later’ approach.
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