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On August 23, 2017, Boko Haram insurgents attacked several villages in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The extremists shot at villagers and slit their throats, killing 27 people and wounding at least 6 others.
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Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in...
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Twitter is turning a blind eye to the extremists who use the platform to recruit, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). CEP started a European branch on Monday (29 June) and says it will continue targeting extremists’ activity on social...
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The European commission must ensure that social media companies will respect national laws against incitement to religious hatred and violence, says Roberta Bonazzi. In the US, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has been very successful in drawing...
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Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in...
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After the attacks in Lyon, Kuwait and Tunisia terrorism researcher Rolf Tophoven sees a kind of competition between rival Islamist terrorists. "We have two competing terrorist organizations, even if they fight in the same spirit: IS and al Qaeda,"...
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CEP started a European branch on Monday (29 June) and says it will continue targeting extremists' activity on social media here. The group was founded last September in the US, where it focuses its attention on extremist activity on Twitter.
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The internet is rightly celebrated for revolutionising the nature of global communications. We have seen what it can achieve for social justice and political change: the internet has demanded transparency, it has shone a light on oppressive regimes...
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The Misssouri State University College of Business Ad Team won first place in the U.S. State Department’s Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism program, competing internationally against 21 other universities before emerging as the top finalist. Now the...
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A group of former U.S. government officials and scholars have unified to launch an organized campaign to mount a belated online response to religious extremists. The Counter-Extremism Project has recently put pressure on Twitter and its CEO Jack...
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"Soltan is certainly iconic now, but what frightened me is not the fact that the image escaped but the fact that the regime was also using these technologies," said Wallace, who now runs the Counter Extremism Project and an online campaign against...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On August 23, 2017, Boko Haram insurgents attacked several villages in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The extremists shot at villagers and slit their throats, killing 27 people and wounding at least 6 others.
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