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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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CEP Senior Director Hans Jakob Schindler discusses the problem of radicalized individuals leaving Syrian refugee camps. "Every nation that has foreign fighters, men or women, in these camps, particularly these camps in Syria which are maintained by...
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"After Hamas, PIJ is the second-largest terrorist group in Gaza and is sponsored by Iran and Syria, according to the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project."
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups, Siege Culture and Atomwaffen can be tied to five murders. One of those killings involves suspect Samuel Woodward, 21, who’s been charged in the 2018 fatal stabbing of...
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"Since hosting provider Cloudfare blocked access to the site - following an announcement revealing that the author of the El Paso shootings in Texas, had posted a racist message on the site a few minutes before the attack on a shopping mall that...
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"The Raising the Bar Act would create a government-backed program to help tech companies eliminate the scourge of posts, images and videos from terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda on their social networks. The legislation would direct the...
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"The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) works to combat extremist ideologies, including tackling terrorist content online and has actively followed the discussions on the proposed Terror Content Online regulation, says Senior Advisor, Lucinda Creighton...
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"Some of the world’s biggest marketers halted YouTube spending this month after ads from large brands were found running alongside hateful and extremist videos. Google parent Alphabet Inc. risks losing $750 million in revenue this year from the...
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"A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Hoda Muthana, a 25-year-old woman born in New Jersey who joined ISIS in 2014, is not a US citizen. Judge Reggie B. Walton of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought...
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"iFunny is an obvious target for extremist groups because modern-day propaganda comes in meme form, and websites with young audiences are ripe for grooming, said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project. 'iFunny caters...
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "And while IS has certainly lost territory, they have not lost the capacity to operate online, radicalising the vulnerable, aided and abetted by our global tech platforms. Forced out of outright denial that...
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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