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Juli 29, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Content Moderation Shortcomings Are Topic Of Tech-Led Counterterrorism Initiative

Last week, the tech sector’s largest counterterror group, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) convened a forum of industry stakeholders to address ongoing extremist activity online in the wake of protests and civil unrest. The...

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Juli 23, 2020

U.S. Moves To Stop Products Manufactured With Uighur-Forced Labor

The U.S. Department of Commerce blacklisted 11 Chinese firms this week accused of human rights violations. The companies were involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups—a practice actively promoted by Beijing and which...

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Juli 22, 2020

Consensus Building Among Lawmakers That EU Must Designate Hezbollah In Its Entirety

Leaders of the European Union (EU) last week received an unprecedented letter from 235 lawmakers representing 30 nations and 25 EU member states, urging the body to ban Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and designate it in its entirety as a terrorist...

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Juli 16, 2020

Far-Right Extremists In Europe Leverage Internet To Promote Racist And Xenophobic Narratives

According to a new report by the United Kingdom’s Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE), extremists of all spectrums, including neo-Nazis and the far right, have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to launch broad misinformation campaigns...

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Juli 15, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Tech Giants Oppose Measure Strengthening Regulation Of Online Child Sex Abuse

In an effort to stave off pending U.S. regulation, the tech industry has opposed widely-supported bi-partisan U.S. legislation—the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act)—that would help mitigate the...

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Juli 10, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Top EU Official Details Proposal To Address Content Moderation, Liability Issues With Tech Companies

European Union (EU) digital-policy and antitrust czar Margrethe Vestager took sharp aim at U.S. tech companies last week, detailing a comprehensive plan to regulate tech companies, including proposals to curb their anticompetitive behavior. The new...

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Juli 9, 2020

Kata’ib Hezbollah Escalates Pressure On Iraqi Government

On June 25, Iraqi forces arrested 14 militants belonging to the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) in an anti-terrorism raid ordered by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The KH members were allegedly planning an attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone, which...

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Juli 7, 2020

Extremist Content Online: Content From White Supremacist Group RAM Located On YouTube

(New York, N.Y.) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, a media group affiliated with the white...

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Juli 2, 2020

Security Deteriorating In West Africa As Terror Groups End Alliance

Recent attacks by Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara—local affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS—against one another is punctuating a security breakdown in West Africa, a region already challenged by...

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Juli 1, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Major Corporations Boycott Facebook Ad Spending Over Content Moderation Mishandling

Iconic consumer brands have begun pledging to temporarily or indefinitely halt advertisements on Facebook due to its consistent mishandling of extremist content, hateful rhetoric, and divisive information on its site. The boycott by more than 100...

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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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