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"Irish prison officers are to be trained to spot and stop signs of radicalisation among inmates. The Department of Justice says the move is part of its plan to deal with a potential increase in radicalisation and extremism. Ian Acheson, a senior...
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"In recent weeks a number of web hosting services have shut down several major online neo-Nazi meeting grounds, Motherboard has learned. In perhaps the biggest takedown of all, Fascist Forge, a Facebook-like site for online Nazis, disappeared for a...
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CEP's new report, The Extreme Right on Facebook, documents Facebook’s failure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi pages that clearly violate its terms of service. CEP identified and monitored a small selection of 40 Facebook pages belonging to...
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"For 80-year-old Kiptenai Kosgei, Shadrack Kipkoech used to be his little boy. He’s far from that now. They say he is radicalised. What’s more, he now supports Al-Shabaab. The Counter-Extremism Project states that Kenya is a prime location for al...
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"Two internet hosting companies have removed a white supremacist web forum after they were notified of the racist content by the Counter Extremism Project, an anti-extremism group. DreamHost and Hostinger suspended the Fascist Forge forum after the...
Press Release
The recent New Zealand attacks have once again made clear that the tech industry’s preferred paradigm of self-regulation has failed. Tech companies have been unable or unwilling to establish clear standards of what constitutes impermissible extremist...
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“Several neo-Nazi groups remain active on Facebook after it was found they did not violate the site’s 'community standards.' The pages were operated by international white supremacist organizations, as per Counter Extremism Project (CEP) via an...
Press Release
CEP released the following statement today after Hostinger International, Ltd., an international web hosting company, suspended Fascist Forge, a neo-Nazi web forum. Hostinger suspended the forum after CEP flagged its history of advocating violent...
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What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will host an event to present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a...
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CEP Senior Advisor and a leading expert on digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed by National Public Radio about tech companies’ failure to prevent the reuploading of the New Zealand attack video. Said Farid: "The repeated uploading is an...
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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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