CEP in the News

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July 2, 2021

"NGOs HateAid and The Counter Extremism Project urged Ireland, Finland, and Sweden to strengthen their demands that online platforms take down illegal content in the EU’s content moderation bill. In a letter sent today to the three countries’ justice...

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July 2, 2021

"Over the past two months, lawmakers in the UK and Europe have introduced a number of major new bills aimed at curbing the malicious role that Big Tech plays in the spread of extremist and terrorist content online, writes Counter Extremism Executive...

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July 1, 2021

"A report by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank urges officials to be "concerned" about the risk of Western far-right extremists connecting with paramilitaries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)."

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July 1, 2021

"The Counter Extremism Project, which monitors extremist activity online, said: 'CEP researchers identified a video posted on Streamable consisting of a recreation of the Christchurch terrorist attack video in the online video game Roblox, as well as...

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June 30, 2021

"The Counter Extremism Project, which monitors extremist activity online, said: 'CEP researchers identified a video posted on Streamable consisting of a recreation of the Christchurch terrorist attack video in the online video game Roblox, as well as...

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June 30, 2021

"Speaking to Express.co.uk, Liam Duffy, a strategic advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), argued against the 'celebritisation' of western ISIS volunteers. He contrasted 'the plight of the Yazidis and the situation they’re living in now'...

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June 24, 2021

CEP report on Jemaah Islamiyah referenced: "From there, all sides agree: Hambali became an operator within Jemaah Islamiyah or JI. It is a militant organization hoping to found an Islamic state in the Southeast Asian tropics."

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June 23, 2021

"However, Qatar’s government 'has paid ransom demands, shipped supplies, and funnelled billions of dollars of funding' to militant groups across the Middle East, according to the Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), a think tank close to the US...

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June 22, 2021

"The nonprofit Counter Extremism Project says NSC-131 is a 'leaderless, decentralized organization' and lists Hood, previously of Malden, as its 'alleged founder.' During the Jan. 6 riot, screenshots taken from Telegram, the encrypted messaging app...

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June 21, 2021

"'Now, instead of one Hamas wallet, you have many wallets and many donors. That makes it hard to follow the money,' explains Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based nonprofit that builds programs to...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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