YOUTUBE allows extremists to spread jihadist propaganda online by exploiting holes in the website's filters, it emerged today. The site has a two-hour target for taking down terror content - but it misses that target in a quarter of all cases, a...

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new study that finds YouTube’s efforts to proactively remove extremist content from its platform are failing. The report, which utilized an online web crawler and its own hashing technology - eGLYPH -...

CEP Advisiory Board Member Sir Ivor Roberts writes: “This week, a rare light was cast into the shadows of state sponsorship of terrorism. Documents obtained by the BBC reveal that in 2015, Qatar paid approximately $1 billion to one of the most...

For David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, a US non-profit group that aims to tackle extremist ideology, the only shocking thing about the Dispatches programme was that Facebook allowed an investigative journalist to be...

CEP Senior Advisor and chairman of the computer science department at Dartmouth College, Dr. Hany Farid, discusses "Deep Fakes," the ability of modern computer technology to create compelling fake video, images or audio recordings.

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Google’s attempts to tackle the dangers of terrorist content on its online platforms, including YouTube, have come far too late and remain disturbingly inadequate, according to findings in a new study by...

New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they’ve never said. Lawmakers and intelligence officials worry that the bogus videos — called deepfakes — could be used to threaten national security or...

Black market British passports are being sold openly on social media. Genuine and fake versions can be bought for as little as £800, a Daily Mail investigation shows. One page on Facebook has been used to trade illegal British passports for at least...

The collective team of Martyna Eron from Wellington College, Gráinne Camplisson from St. Louise’s College, Ryan Bell from Hazelwood Integrated College and Jess Bell from Active Communities Network were the winners, having impressed the judges with...

A few years ago, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube found themselves under withering criticism from governments around the world who said their platforms had become a haven for bad actors seeking to spread damaging propaganda. The problem then wasn't...