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...

Extremism Spotlight: Ahmad Musa Jibril’s Ties to Extremists

Ahmad Musa Jibril is an Islamist preacher well-known for being an influential jihadist voice in Syria and for having radicalized Khuram Shazad Butt, one of three London Bridge attackers who killed eight people and wounded almost 50 others on June 3...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "The Internet, and social media in particular, has been a boon for child predators and abusers. A plan by Facebook to implement end-to-end encryption across its services, including on Instagram, WhatsApp and...

Female jihadists are just as dedicated as their male counterparts when it comes to bringing to life an “Islamic State,” the European Union’s police agency stated Friday. David Ibsen, the Executive Director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)...

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: Tech Companies Need “A Fundamental Change” to Tackle Extremist Content

CEP today released the eighth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled " Pressure Points ," Dr. Farid calls for a collective effort...

Pressure Points: Pushing Tech to Do Better

In video eight of a nine-part series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid explains how if tech companies can't decide that they should do better, the public should decide for them.

"Experts are issuing increasingly urgent warnings about the advance of deepfake technology ― both the realistic nature of these videos, and the ease with which even amateurs can create them. Deepfake technology threatens to provoke a genuine civic...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler are interviewed about deepfake videos, solutions for other problems plaguing the self-regulated tech industry, as well as CEP's hashing technology, eGLYPH.

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists & Neo-Nazis Continue Thriving on YouTube

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week’s edition urges YouTube to strictly enforce its new policy for removing extremist videos, in...