House Homeland Security Committee Takes Aim at Tech Industry’s Failure to Halt Spread of Online Extremist Content

CEP commended the House Committee on Homeland Security for holding a hearing on social media companies' efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. The hearing was called in the wake of March’s New Zealand mosque shootings—in which a...

“Telegram has been criticised for not acting fast enough to identify and block ISIS and other extremist groups from its platform. In February, the Counter Extremism Project said six years after the app’s founding, it remained 'a terrorists’ platform...

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Will be Ripe for Misuse

This month, Facebook announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency , the Libra, by mid-2020. Already, regulators in both Europe and the United States are expressing concern about its public policy implications . Cryptocurrency , already one of the...

Extremism Spotlight: Abdullah al-Faisal’s Ties to Extremists

Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. In announcing his indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Faisal’s lectures, websites, and...

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid in Finale: “Companies Have to Start Taking More Responsibility for What They’ve Created”

CEP today released the finale of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the video, titled “ Responsibility ,” Dr. Farid calls on tech companies to take more...

Responsibility: Tech Should Take a Hard Look

In the last installment of CEP's video series on extremism online, Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley says, "I think that companies have to start taking more responsibility for what they've created...

"A 'dangerous hate' app linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has been in the top 100 downloads in the Apple store in a third of European countries since its launch, despite international calls for it to be banned. The Euro Fatwa app, which was launched...

"Loopholes in U.N. Security Council sanctions procedures are allowing blacklisted al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists and their supporters to tap their bank accounts despite a U.N. asset freeze, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "Fake news is not new, nor are its deadly consequences. What is new, thanks to the internet and social media, is their reach and frequency. Today, misinformation propagates around the world at the speed of...

CEP Senior Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Ginsberg writes: "In another ploy to throw circling regulators off its scent, YouTube declared it will remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate neo-Nazi white nationalism and other uber right...