CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The tech companies' abdication of responsibility for what happens on their platforms has concrete consequences. After the routing of the IS in the Middle East, Southeast Asia has the potential to be another...

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Dr. Hany Farid writes: "The EARN IT Act is the culmination of years of cajoling, pleading, and threatening the technology sector to get its house in order. They have not, and so now is the time for legislation to rein them in...

"Another study, this time by the US-based Counter Extremism Project, released in 2018, noted that Facebook has helped Daesh grow fast by connecting its members with others with similar extremist views. The study, which analysed the online behaviour...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), says it's unclear why Telegram does not take action against these specific violent White supremacist channels. 'The fact that they do not take action, despite these...

"'We have gotten to a tipping point,' said Hany Farid, a professor at University of California-Berkeley. 'The Trump administration, Covid, Black Lives Matter, the ugliness social media is surfacing -- I think people finally realize this is not OK...

"Her comments came as the CEP published a report called 'The Creation, Weaponisation and Detection of Deep Fakes'. "The report’s author, Professor Hany Farid from the University of California at Berkeley, explained that deep fakes, which see famous...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid: "In five years, I expect us to have long since reached the boiling point that leads to reining in an almost entirely unregulated technology sector to contend with how technology has been weaponized against...

"And Josh Lipowsky, a senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, warned of the consequences for other cases if Tajideen is released early. 'This release risks setting a precedent for the early release of designated terrorists. And we...

"Josh Lipowsky, a senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit group that tracks extremism, said releasing Tajideen could set a precedent with unknown consequences. 'This release risks setting a precedent for the early...

"In May, the White supremacist group Rise Above Movement launched its own Telegram channel, which, according to the Countering Extremism Project, features anti-Semitism and anti-migration themes."