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Mai 22, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The American Congress and the European Parliament deserve enormous credit for convincing the CEO of one of the world’s biggest companies to testify but the Members who will be questioning him should learn...

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Mai 22, 2018

Scores of pro-ISIS accounts and communities have found a home on Google Plus despite being purged from other social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, according to a review by The Hill. The Hill found dozens of pages across Google’s social...

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Mai 22, 2018

Facebook claims it has aggressively targeted terrorist content, eliminating 99 percent of terror-related messages before anyone even reports it. But the 90-page report from the Counter Extremism Project, entitled “Spiders of the Caliphate,” lays out...

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Mai 17, 2018

CBS News: CEP Deputy Director Lara Pham discusses a new CEP report showing that Google-owed YouTube's program to suppress extremist videos and promote counter-narrative content is "insufficient and inconsistent."

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Mai 17, 2018

An initiative by YouTube to minimize the exposure of videos advocating extremism is falling short, according to a new report from researchers with the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The report criticizes the effectiveness of YouTube's efforts to...

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Mai 15, 2018

Tens of thousands of Isis videos, speeches and publications have been shared on an internet archive site despite repeated warnings that it is being exploited to spread terrorism. Isis content that remains accessible on archive.org includes a 124-page...

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Mai 15, 2018

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia designated as a terror group by the U.S., is tapping a money-laundering ministate in Latin America that poses an escalating risk to U.S. national security, according to a report published Tuesday. The...

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Mai 13, 2018

Abedi had learned how to make his bomb from a 30-minute film that he watched on YouTube, featuring a balaclava-clad terrorist identified as Muhammad Al-Muhajir speaking in Arabic, but which had English subtitles. YouTube removed the film but, as...

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Mai 11, 2018

We are exhausted by spectacular failures to protect user’s privacy, allowing advertisers to illegally target housing and job ads based on race and age, promoting fake news designed to incite violence and disrupt elections, and allowing terror-groups...

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Mai 10, 2018

Brands are finding out that YouTube isn't the only platform where their ads pop up next to Islamic State-related videos—they're also on smaller outlets like Dailymotion, a video site owned by French media giant Vivendi. Last week, D.C.-based...

Daily Dose

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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