On June 28, 2016, CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discussed the terrorist attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport with host Chris Matthews.

The "Islamic State" group (IS) has made extraordinary use of social media to recruit followers and inspire attacks. Facebook and Twitter say they are working hard to shut down extremists' profiles and remove offensive content. But IS still has a huge...

On “Morning Joe” Thursday, they had a guest named Dr. Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College. It was a brief segment with Dr. Farid, but he touched on something I’d never even considered. One of the problems with radicalization...

AMERICAN officials referred to Anwar al-Awlaki as a senior recruiter for al-Qaeda. After being connected to numerous terrorist attacks, in 2011 he became one of the first United States citizens to be killed by an American drone. Yet Awlaki’s online...

Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College, has developed a software algorithm that he claims will allow platforms like Facebook and Twitter to identify content created by the Islamic State and similar extremist groups and their supporters...

The web has become one of the most powerful tools today used by terrorist networks like the Islamic State, or ISIS. Two researchers — physicist Neil Johnson and computer scientist Hany Farid — are among the many to come out with new technologies...

Dr. Hany Farid recently teamed up with the Counter Extremism Project to develop new technology to help Internet companies detect terrorist images and videos and remove them. In this interview, Dr. Farid explains the technology and how it can help...

Once dependent on leaflets and videotapes, terrorist groups now use social media as a chief recruiting tool. Each day, Twitter users tweet an average of 500 million times and more than a billion people log into Facebook. Instead of relying on humans...

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Tara Maller, the Spokesperson and a Senior Policy Advisor for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), to discuss the growing threat – and responses to – online extremism.

An article in RUE89 discusses the challenge of combating online extremist propaganda and CEP's new technology designed to identify and automatically remove the worst images, videos and audio content.