The European Commission has today released its regulation on terrorist content online. This legislation is badly needed in the fight against terrorist propaganda and recruitment online, and today marks a step forward in how Europe fights extremism...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Barely a decade old, cloud computing has revolutionised the way individuals and companies host and access digital content from anywhere in the world. As they have with social media platforms and other...

The European Union is poised to adopt sweeping new powers against abuse of internet technologies, including measures to ensure the rapid removal of online terrorist message and an overhaul of regulations designed to counter cyber security threats...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Today, rabble-rousers in Northern Ireland have an array of modern tools with which they can spread their extremist ideology. Research by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has revealed that, in the online...

CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Department Chairman Dr. Hany Farid, writing in the German newspaper Handelsblatt, discusses the consequences of online extremism and the pressing need for social media companies to act. "The...

More Iranians are paying big money to buy passports in neighboring countries through bribery or fraudulent information, in a bid to evade U.S. sanctions and the Trump administration's travel ban on Iran and six other nations, multiple sources have...

Islamic State has lost most of the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq. It is vying for survival with other, sometimes stronger, extremist groups. But one sphere where Islamic State still reigns supreme among terrorists is in cyberspace. In a...

The Nordic Resistance Movement, or NMR, is a neo-Nazi organisation originally founded in Sweden that is openly anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and anti-gay. Their goal is to create an ethnically pure pan-Nordic nation, according to the group’s website...

Now, according to a report in the Financial Times, the European Commission has decided to scrap a voluntary approach to ensure firms remove content. This will apparently be replaced with a much starker draft regulation, which will be published in...

The European Commission is planning to order websites to delete extremist content on their sites within an hour to avoid the risk of being fined. The regulation would affect Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among others. The crackdown would lead to the...