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September 14, 2019

"Lara Pham, an expert with New York-based Counter Extremism Project, argued that countries in Europe have particularly made significant achievements through enacting transnational laws that target online extremist content. 'These efforts show that...

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September 11, 2019

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "This week marks the 18th anniversary of the horrible attacks of September 11, 2001. These attacks marked both the high point of the international terror operations planned and directed by al-Qaida...

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September 6, 2019

“Patrik Mathews, a Canadian Armed Forces member who is now suspended from duty, has been linked to the group and missing for almost two weeks. The 26-year-old Mathews was exposed as a member of The Base through a series of explosive stories in which...

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September 5, 2019

"Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and image-forensics expert whose lab received a grant from Facebook related to its deepfake detection research, said the competition is a big step toward solving an important problem. He said Facebook will also...

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September 4, 2019

"Major tech companies formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism in 2017 to coordinate the removal of terrorist content. They more recently signed onto the Christchurch Call, a voluntary pledge to eradicate extremist content. But industry...

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September 3, 2019

"Suicide bombings and other deadly attacks committed by Boko Haram terrorists over the past decade have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people, while more than two million others have been displaced. These figures do not even...

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September 3, 2019

"In 2016 and 2017, YouTube was routinely criticized for having terrorist videos on its website. Though it has made progress in finding and banning such videos, it did not completely solve the problem. In 2018, the Counter Extremism Project found that...

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September 1, 2019

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes : "Sanctions or restrictive measures in European Union (EU) terminology have become a key instrument in the toolbox of policymakers, including policymakers in the EU. Often the public discussion...

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August 22, 2019

"However, their page on Russian social media site VK still exists, where clothing bearing their logos is advertised for sale, although the page has not been updated since December 2018. According to the Counter Extremism Project, a number of people...

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August 20, 2019

Tipped by the Counter-Extremism Project, the footage was posted on a known extremist Telegram channel and shows at least seven masked men holding weapons, then firing them in the same direction. A counterterrorism source told VICE the GIF, which is...

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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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