On Monday, a man turned a van against the pedestrians walking along Yonge Street in north Toronto, killing ten people and injuring over a dozen.It doesn’t take much time to think of other recent attacks that used this method—Nice, Berlin, London, New...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller Discusses The Toronto Van Attack And ISIS Propaganda Online With Global News Radio Host Mike Stubbs.

A Moscow court decided last week to block the app in Russia because it refused to hand over encryption keys to authorities — sparking fresh controversy around the app, which has previously been banned in countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses problematic content on YouTube in light of a report that found ads from 300 companies running on YouTube channels promoting extremists and terrorists, white nationalists, Nazis, and pedophilia.

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes in the Eureporter: "The European Union recently upped the pressure on social media companies to do more to remove terrorist material from their platforms. Growing frustrated with the continued presence of...

In an op-ed, CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The battle against terrorism in Europe is fought in schools, prisons, homes, and communities across the continent. It is being fought online and in real life by governments, companies, and...

Congress interrogated Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for two days this week over his company’s privacy policies—and its apparent inability to prevent the misuse of its social media platform by some promoting hatred, terrorism or political...

How successful Facebook has been at finding and eliminating terrorist propaganda from its platform is still up for debate. Facebook and other social media companies were chastised by the British Parliament in a 2017 report for “failing to remove...

Artificial intelligence will solve Facebook’s most vexing problems, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg insists. He just can’t say when, or how. The company has said that advances in AI have helped it remove thousands of fake accounts and “find...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the continuing problem of extremist and terrorist content on Facebook, contradicting the false claims made by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his Congressional testimony.