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April 20, 2020

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS, Neo-Nazi Groups Using Instagram To Advocate Violence

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. This week, CEP researchers located multiple pro-ISIS and neo-Nazi...

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April 16, 2020

Persecuted Uighur Population In China At Risk Of Coronavirus Exposure In Xinjiang Camps

China’s continued detention of more than one million Uighur’s in what U.S. officials have called “concentration camps” has put the persecuted population at heightened risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. More than 50 coronavirus cases...

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April 13, 2020

Extremist Content Online: 151 Podcast Episodes From Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistant Movement Found On Spreaker

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. This week, CEP researchers located a Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)...

Press Release

April 9, 2020

Taliban Rejects Afghan Government’s Prisoner Release Offer

Success Of U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Appear Doubtful (New York, N.Y.) – Yesterday, the Afghan government announced the release of 100 Taliban prisoners in accordance with the phased releases required under an agreement signed on February 29 between the...

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April 8, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Despite Terrorist Ties, Hizb ut-Tahrir Hosts Khilafah Conference On Facebook Live

On Sunday, the American chapter of noted Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) hosted its annual Khilafah (“Caliphate”) Conference using Facebook Live. HT is banned in at least 13 countries worldwide and is most notoriously known as the...

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April 7, 2020

U.S. Designates The Russian Imperial Movement As A Global Terrorist Organization

On Monday, the U.S. Department of State designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a global terrorist organization. The RIM has reportedly provided training and resources to white nationalist groups around the world and seeks to promote the...

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April 7, 2020

CEP Cryptocurrency Study Findings to be Presented During May 13 Webinar

The findings of a new study on cryptocurrencies and terrorism financing conducted by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Berlin Risk will be presented during a May 13 webinar held in conjunction with the Germany Chapter of the Association of...

Press Release

April 6, 2020

Extremist Content Online: Extremists Plot Anti-Semitic Harassment Campaign Targeting Philadelphia Jewish Day School

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, users of an 8chan successor site detailed a plot to target...

Press Release

April 6, 2020

CEP Statement On U.S. Designation Of Russian Imperial Movement As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Executive Director David Ibsen released the following statement today upon reports that the U.S. Department of State will designate the extremist white supremacist group Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a Foreign...

Press Release

April 3, 2020

Tech & Terrorism: Online Extremists Exploit Coronavirus Pandemic To Incite Violence & Encourage Terrorism

As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, far-right and Islamic extremist groups are plotting to exploit the health crisis to advance their radical agendas. Last week, FBI agents thwarted a car bomb attack on a hospital in Missouri...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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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