CEP in the News

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Oktober 21, 2020

"The legislation has early support from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Counter Extremism Project and the Anti-Defamation League. The bill does not yet have support in the Senate."

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Oktober 20, 2020

"UC Berkley professor Dr. Hany Farid, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, called the Eshoo-Malinowski bill 'an important measure' that would 'hold the technology sector accountable for irresponsibly deploying algorithms that amplify...

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Oktober 20, 2020

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, director at the Counter Extremism Project, said tech companies were failing to tackle extremist content. 'The CEP is very critical of the tech industry for its failings to adequately monitor and moderate its products so that...

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Oktober 20, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "This was no lone wolf jihadist. Parisian Islamists stoked the flames, warning that a French genocide of Muslims was imminent if this blasphemy were tolerated. From this ecosystem of rage and grievance, the assassin...

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Oktober 19, 2020

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE News that Macron’s renewed commitment to tackling Islamist extremism 'seems to be a step in the right direction.' 'Actions must have consequences,' he said. 'Groups...

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Oktober 19, 2020

"According to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), '[Al-Shabaab] seeks to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the country that it hopes will ultimately expand to encompass the whole Horn of Africa. In doing so, persecution of Christians is...

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Oktober 18, 2020

"Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley computer science professor who is a member of TikTok's committee of outside content moderation experts, said there is tension within social networks over how to respond to misinformation without also amplifying the...

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Oktober 18, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor "Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who carried out the government’s 2016 review of Islamist extremism in jails, said he feared that a prison officer could be taken hostage and killed."

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Oktober 15, 2020

"Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, the coordinator of the ISIL, al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team for the United Nations Security Council, will speak at the Counter Extremism Project webinar on ‘The Prospect For Peace In Afghanistan,' at 9 a.m."

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Oktober 15, 2020

"'To have that kind of broad tent, that's incredibly dangerous,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the Counter Extremism Project, a policy group formed to combat online extremist ideologies."

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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