CEP Webinar: The Threat Posed by ISIS Globally and European Threat Assessment | Amb. Fitton-Brown

A string of attacks in France throughout 2020; the attack by an ISIS supporter in Vienna, Austria, on November 2, 2020, which killed four and injured 23; as well as the arrests on February 12, 2021, in Denmark and Germany of 14 members belonging to...

"Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, said 'This is a tactic that has been around for several years … It was originally used early on by Islamist extremists — ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas — but in the last five years or so...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "We have a problem with violent extremists in prison. We don’t know where they all are, we can’t control them adequately even if we did and we can’t change them meaningfully. The outworking of these failures...

Tech & Terrorism: Tech Companies That Algorithmically Amplify Terrorist Content Should Not Receive Section 230 Immunity

As calls for reform to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act continue, lawmakers in Congress have begun shifting their approach from attempting major reform to tailoring it to individual types of content. For instance, one proposal would...

CEP "U.S. White Supremacy Groups" report referenced: "The Counter-Terrorism Project (n.d) alleges white supremacists subscribe to neo-Nazi beliefs that the whites are superior to other races."

White Supremacist Violence Poses Threat To U.S. National Security

In his testimony at last week’s hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the January 6 Capitol riot, FBI Director Christopher Wray told senators domestic extremists pose a threat to national security. Wray explained that the...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted regarding U.S. lawmakers' proposed targeted changes to Section 230: "I think we want to take as modest of a step as possible. Give it a year or two, see how it unfolds and make adjustments."

Extremist Content Online: Al-Qaeda Bomb-Making Materials Shared By User On White Supremacist Forum

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. A user of an imageboard on the dark web shared a collection of al-Qaeda...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "To Farid, the choice for tech companies was simple: automatically filter out the mass quantities of obviously abhorrent content using hashing technology like PhotoDNA and worry about the gray areas later."

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Deputy Director Lara Pham write: "Such calls for enhanced legal authority may seem understandable when viewed in the context of the aftermath of senseless, tragic attacks. However, U.S. laws treat foreign...