A California man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State and lying on a passport application, federal officials said. Adam Dandach, 22, was arrested on July 3, 2014 at John Wayne Airport, where he was planning to...

How can the U.S. fight the spread of Islamic State propaganda? Fighting extremist content online need not be very complicated, according to Dr. Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College.“We don’t need to develop software that determines...

A computer scientist at Dartmouth College has developed new software aimed at quickly identifying and stopping the spread of extremist videos online that are used to incite violent attacks. Dr. Hany Farid developed the software with the Counter...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller joins host Chris Matthews to discuss the latest developments in the Bangladesh hostage situation.

When Hany Farid started working a few decades ago on analyzing digital images, he was thinking about how to detect forgeries and copies of still photos and probably hadn’t even heard of the word “jihad.” Fast forward to 2016. The Dartmouth professor...

CEP President and former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Fran Townsend discusses the investigation process that comes after a terrorist attack with host Kate Snow.

An American non-profit policy organization announced recently the launch of an app that allows social media companies and Internet sites to “quickly remove” jihadist, ISIS-related online propaganda from their platforms. The Counter Extremism Project...

CEP President Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security advisor to President George W. Bush, joins "CBS This Morning" to weigh in on whether ISIS is to blame for the deadly blasts in Istanbul's major airport and the Turkish security officials' quick...

Since 2008, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has offered to share with ISPs a list of hash values that correspond to known child abuse images. That list, which was eventually coupled with Microsoft’s own PhotoDNA...

This article in the Spanish publication S ilicon , describes software developed by CEP that can automatically detect and remove extremist content from platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.