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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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"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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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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"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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"'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."
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed for Svenska Yle's "Arenans radio" podcast, about the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, found guilty of running a criminal organization in Greece: "Most of the most nastiest groups and individuals within...
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"'There is no single magic answer to solving the misinformation apocalypse,' argues [CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany] Farid. Instead, the social platforms must be more responsible, and that means a combination of better labeling, a better focus on...
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"The director of the Counter Extremism Project think-tank, Hans-Jakob Schindler, said this would be a change in tactics for the Kurdish forces, who have previously been against prosecuting fighters locally."
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CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "The overriding priority should be to bring these Isis brides to face justice wherever possible and as soon as it can be arranged. Leaving them to plot their escapes from the camps should not be an option...
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"Mr Roberts, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, insisted that the British authorities rapidly address the problem of overseas funding for ISIS, but said the priority should be bringing the women to justice."
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CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts spoke on TimesRadio on reports that ISIS supporters are using fund-raising applications and crowd-sourcing in order to help women and children escape Syrian camps. Roberts says ISIS supporters living in refugee...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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