ISIS Attacks Carry on, as Regulators Worldwide Grapple With Terrorism

On July 29, a group of Westerners cycling through Tajikistan were attacked, resulting in four killed, including two Americans, a Swiss citizen and a Dutch national. Three more were injured in the attack, which ISIS quickly claimed credit for. The...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "During a recent three-month period, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) conducted a limited study using its own video-matching technology and YouTube’s API to identify the presence on YouTube of a small...

Zuckerberg’s 99% Myth Exposed: With Charlottesville Anniversary Approaching, Far-Right Extremism Maintains Hold on Facebook

August marks the first anniversary of the tragic events in Charlottesville – and despite all the uproar that followed, Facebook’s promises to take more action against hate groups have rung hollow. The Guardian reports that the same actors involved in...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Sirius XM

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller speaks with Sirius XM's Chief DC Correspondent Olivier Knox about online extremism and CEP's report analyzing ISIS content on YouTube.

CEP Statement On Revelations of Google’s Plan to Relaunch Censored Search Engine in China

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement in response to reports about Google’s plans to relaunch a censored version of its search engine in China to meet that authoritarian government’s demands to limit free speech that read in part:...

ICYMI: CEP Study Documents YouTube’s Failure to Effectively and Permanently Remove Extremist Content

CEP, to better understand the prevalence of ISIS videos on YouTube, conducted a three month study using a web crawler and its own video-matching technology, eGLYPH. CEP searched for the presence on YouTube of a small sample of 229 previously...

The European Union has lost patience with technology companies and will legislate to force them to remove terrorist propaganda from their services. The EU said in March that it favoured a “voluntary approach” but would force businesses’ hands if they...

CEP Statement on Tech Companies’ Transparency Reports Required Under German Law and European Union Proposal To Regulate Extremism Online

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement in response to tech giants releasing figures on how much hateful content they blocked or removed under Germany’s Network Enforcement Act as well as reports that the European Union is planning to...

ISIS Maximizes Online Propaganda To Target “Marginalized & Vulnerable”

The shooting in Toronto this week demonstrated the extent to which ISIS has mastered the use of social media and the Internet to spread its propaganda. Although authorities have stated that there was no known terrorist involvement for the incident...

One of the most efficient tools in fighting terrorism is to go after what hurts terrorist organisations the most — their finances. In that respect, the FBI has documented much of Hezbollah’s finances and many of its illegal activities, such as drug...