"'The recent surge of terror attacks in France has shown that now, more than ever before, we need to clamp down on the spread of terrorist content online,' said David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project. ... Yet Ibsen said...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "Franchi’s resilience doesn’t surprise Hany Farid, a University of California at Berkeley computer science professor who studies YouTube’s response to conspiracy channels. He said for all the headlines about...

CEP Executive Director David L. Ibsen says it is “urgent to counter this proliferation of hate messages, which are very effective among vulnerable individuals.”

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen quoted: “What is not tolerated in public space should not be tolerated in social media [...] the recent surge of terrorist attacks in France shows that, more than ever before that, we need to crack down on the...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks with Dr. Justine Walker on ACAMS "Sanctions Space" podcat. Dr. Schindler, a former Coordinator of the ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security...

"Others call for the authorities to adopt a harder approach. As Slovakia has done, the criminalisation of far-right networks should be approached through the counterterrorism lens, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism...

"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is classified by the Counter Extremism Project as a military, terrorist, transnational and violent group. The US government also officially designated the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in...

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace writes, "Counter-extremism and even online counterterrorism efforts require nuanced understanding and well-designed programmes based on well-founded theories of change. Such programmes are regularly evaluated and...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with JJ Green of WTOP's The Hunt about the beheading of a school teacher in France: "What you see here is that hate speech online actually kills people offline. There is a clear line between what...

"During a webinar for the Counter Extremism Project on 'The current threat landscape in Afghanistan,' Mr Fitton-Brown said ties between the two organisations remain. 'Al Qaeda senior figures remain in Afghanistan as well as hundreds of armed...