"Representatives from Facebook and Google appeared before congress today over the role of online platforms in promoting hate crimes, extremism and white nationalism. The House Judiciary Committee hearing follows the mass shooting that targeted two...

Facebook & Google Must Take Responsibility for Proliferation of Extremist Content Online

CEP today called on members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary to use their Tuesday hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism to hold the tech industry accountable for its failure to permanently remove extremist and terrorist content in...

LIBE Committee Passes Critical Vote on the Terror Content File

CEP issued statements today following the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on the draft report on Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "On February 22, 1972, a month on from Bloody Sunday, the first Provisional IRA attack in Britain occurred. A car bomb detonated outside a Parachute Regiment barracks in Aldershot, killing seven civilians...

A former UK ambassador to Dublin fears a return to IRA violence across the UK if devolution is not restored. Former diplomat Sir Ivor Roberts (72) - who served from 1999 to 2003 as Ambassador to Ireland - also hit out at 'tone-deaf' comments from...

“Last Thursday, the neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division (FKD), inspired by James Mason’s Siege and the Atomwaffen Division, posted propaganda on their Gab account calling for violence against MEP Guy Verhofstadt. Speaking to the Counter Extremism...

"Pathways into extremism in Europe may be more complex than originally thought, a new study has found. GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project have identified eight main pathways into Islamic extremism, including partaking in criminal activities...

Tech & Terrorism: CEP Urges Facebook to Halt Lobbying Efforts to Stymie Government Oversight and Regulation

Last weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , called for governments and regulators to become involved in censoring harmful content online. However, Mr. Zuckerberg’s call was intentionally heavy on idealism and rhetoric, and light on specifics. Once...

CEP Statement Applauding Australia Parliament’s Passage of Legislation Regulating Extremist Content Online

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued a statement today commending the Parliament of Australia for passing l egislation regulating social media companies in the wake of the New Zealand shootings, that read in part: “Australia’s pioneering...

Cancel Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Reservation

The international Islamist network Hizb ut-Tahrir wants to bring its anti-Western rhetoric to a Chicagoland hotel. Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the “party of liberation,” has been linked to religious extremism around the world. Nonetheless, the group’s U.S...