CEP in the News

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September 30, 2019

"Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions. But it has never been like this: Technology companies reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of the abuse last year. Hany Farid...

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September 24, 2019

"The issue of radicalization remains particularly problematic in Belgium and the United Kingdom, say two researchers from the European Policy Center who have studied the links between crime, imprisonment and jihadism in ten European countries. In...

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September 20, 2019

"The group has reportedly called for the deaths of European Parliament politician Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube chief executive officer Susan Wojcicki. Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project in New York, said: 'This is...

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September 19, 2019

"A notorious neo-Nazi group has urged its members to attack police stations and threatened to murder chief constables, it was reported last night. Leaders of the group, called the Feuerkrieg Division, said: ‘The people working in these buildings are...

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September 18, 2019

"Facebook has been using real-life first-person shooter video footage to develop artificial intelligence that can more effectively auto-block the type of video that was livestreamed on March 15. Facebook has been widely criticised over the way it...

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September 18, 2019

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses Facebook's plan to expand to Australia a program that targets right wing extremism on its platform. The program was begun last year in the U.S. Schindler said it was "astonishing" that it took...

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September 18, 2019

Facebook has faced several complaints about its functions that inadvertently help promoting extremist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda, but the company appears to have made little progress on the issue. Gregory Waters, one of the authors of an extensive...

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September 17, 2019

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "Preventing online extremism has become a priority for policy-makers in Europe. Germany was the first to legislate against extremist content in 2018, with its NetzDG Law, and earlier this year the EU has...

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September 17, 2019

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE that it makes sense that extreme white supremacist groups would parrot ISIS or al Qaeda propaganda because they both endorse the use of extreme violence for...

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September 16, 2019

"As The Counter Extremism Project has noted: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is tasked with preserving the Islamic Republic of Iran and the ideals of the 1979 revolution. The IRGC combines traditional military roles with a relentless...

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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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