Just one day before President Barack Obama touted efforts to undermine the online reach of jihadist groups four tech giants — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google’s YouTube — announced that they will collaborate on a database of manually tagged...

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google, have announced they are going to work together to identify extremist content. Hany Farid helped to build that technology. He's a computer scientist at Dartmouth and an advisor to the...

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Monday announced they had joined forces in an attempt to curb explicit terrorist imagery online. The move follows criticism from Brussels that big US social media groups have made insufficient effort to...

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have pledged to work together to identify and remove extremist content on their platforms through an information-sharing initiative. Earlier this year Hany Farid, the computer scientist who helped develop...

According to press reports Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s terror rampage was memorialized in a Facebook posting in which the terrorist cited ISIS as his motivation, and the YouTube sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki as his inspiration. Last June I issued an urgent...

"The former New York city police commissioner is joining the advisory board of the Counter Extremism Project, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization formed to combat the growing threat from extremist ideology, a spokesman told POLITICO New York....

Abdul Razak Ali Artan was regarded as a good student who was friendly and said hello to his neighbours. Police identified Artan as the attacker who drove his car into pedestrians at Ohio State University before attacking people with a knife. The...

The FBI believes that the Ohio State University student who attacked a group of people using his car and a knife Monday might have been inspired by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the Islamic State, Special Agent in Charge Angela Byers said...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the attack at The Ohio State University that wounded 11 people and what it known about the perpetrator with host Shepard Smith.

Standing in front of tens of fighters clad in headscarves and sunglasses and carrying AK-47s in an unknown location, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi reads in Arabic from a scrap of paper in a video posted online in late October. On October 30, ISIS’s semi...