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June 11, 2018

Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance in front of the European Parliament made an impact – either because of what he said or due to the awful mismanagement of the whole hearing. The fallout is still rumbling on over whether it was a...

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June 8, 2018

An innovative and ambitious programme for young people interested in technology and the digital world has been launched. Digital Futures, organised by Digital DNA, is a programme which assists 40 teenagers aged 16 – 18 years old in realising their...

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June 6, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: “The EU and U.S. Congress deserve enormous credit for convincing the CEO of the most widely used social media site in the world to answer questions in the hopes of improving public safety and security. But...

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June 4, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the European Parliament last week was, by all accounts, a disaster. The agreed-upon format allowed the CEO of one of the richest and largest tech companies in the world...

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June 3, 2018

Facebook left horrific Islamic State videos on its site for three years, the Daily Mail can reveal. Despite repeated criticism of the social media giant for failing to protect users, the infamous Cubs Of The Caliphate film posted in March 2015 was...

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May 22, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The American Congress and the European Parliament deserve enormous credit for convincing the CEO of one of the world’s biggest companies to testify but the Members who will be questioning him should learn...

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May 22, 2018

Scores of pro-ISIS accounts and communities have found a home on Google Plus despite being purged from other social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, according to a review by The Hill. The Hill found dozens of pages across Google’s social...

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May 22, 2018

Facebook claims it has aggressively targeted terrorist content, eliminating 99 percent of terror-related messages before anyone even reports it. But the 90-page report from the Counter Extremism Project, entitled “Spiders of the Caliphate,” lays out...

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May 17, 2018

CBS News: CEP Deputy Director Lara Pham discusses a new CEP report showing that Google-owed YouTube's program to suppress extremist videos and promote counter-narrative content is "insufficient and inconsistent."

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May 17, 2018

An initiative by YouTube to minimize the exposure of videos advocating extremism is falling short, according to a new report from researchers with the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The report criticizes the effectiveness of YouTube's efforts to...

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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