CEP Statement on Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement regarding the testimony of Google CEO Sundar Pichai before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today that read in part: “What we heard today was more of the same. More misdirection. More excuses...

“Far-right extremists across Europe are successfully integrating themselves into the political mainstream by shunning street violence and adopting the same recruitment techniques used by jihadis, according to a new report. The research, carried out...

“Far-right extremists, loners and murderous neo-Nazis have found a new home on the internet. Now they can openly share their extremist bile with more than 800,000 users on a social media platform called Gab - a haven for far-right fanatics originally...

"Ministers sitting on the EU Home Affairs Council adopted their negotiating position on the European Commission’s proposed regulation against the spread of online terrorist content on Thursday (6 December), as those in the industry reacted with...

New Report Details Pending Crisis Regarding the Rehabilitation of America’s Convicted Islamists

The United States is facing a pending, pressing counterterrorism challenge as dozens of individuals with terrorism-related convictions are set to be released from prison, Parallel Networks Co-Founders Mitch Silber and Jesse Morton found in their...

European Welfare Systems’ Inadvertent Support for Terrorists

In 2017, European security services uncovered that Islamist domestic terrorists and foreign fighters received social welfare payments totaling more than two million euros between 2012 and 2016. Among the primary reasons for the lack of governmental...

Extremist Content Piles up on YouTube; Platform Struggles to Keep Pace

YouTube is not effectively curbing extremist content, according to various experts and policymakers interviewed by NPR ’s Tim Mak last week. YouTube’s algorithms are designed to keep viewers hooked and suggest progressively more extreme videos to...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: Drip, Drip, Drip as Facebook's Problems Continue

On Tuesday, Facebook Vice President for Policy Solutions Richard Allan was grilled before a hearing comprised of nine countries : Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, France, Belgium and Britain. Described as a “ first-of-its-kind...

The Regulation of Tech Companies: A Key Test for Combatting Hate Speech

On November 29, 2018 in Berlin, Germany, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) teamed up to discuss NetzDG, one year after it's gone into effect.

“All this month, we've been reporting on toxic content - what it is, what's to be done about it, both questions that YouTube has thought long and hard about. For years, the YouTube videos of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki inspired terrorists...