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August 4, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the effectiveness of U.S. targeted airstrikes in support of Libyan fighters attempting to drive ISIS terrorists from the port city of Sirte.

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August 3, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller is interviewed on Fox News regarding the discovery of an ISIS division that plans and supports attacks in Western countries and the extent of ISIS's success in radicalizing and inciting attacks through its online...

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August 1, 2016

I asked the team whether showing prisoner abuses could play into the hands of ISIS propagandists, who already use elements of violent video games to recruit fighters. “In this case, I doubt it,” the developer said. “Even terror groups would...

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July 31, 2016

CEP Research Analyst Brian Stewart, in this op-ed, notes that ISIS took much of the world by storm. "In a 2014 interview with The New Yorker, US President Barack Obama pronounced the blood-spattered theocratic gang to be no more than a “JV squad”...

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July 15, 2016

CEP President Fran Townsend is interviewed about the terror attack in Nice, France, when a truck plowed into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 84 people and injuring dozens of others.

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July 26, 2016

A California man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State and lying on a passport application, federal officials said. Adam Dandach, 22, was arrested on July 3, 2014 at John Wayne Airport, where he was planning to...

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July 7, 2016

How can the U.S. fight the spread of Islamic State propaganda? Fighting extremist content online need not be very complicated, according to Dr. Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College.“We don’t need to develop software that determines...

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July 6, 2016

A computer scientist at Dartmouth College has developed new software aimed at quickly identifying and stopping the spread of extremist videos online that are used to incite violent attacks. Dr. Hany Farid developed the software with the Counter...

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July 6, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller joins host Chris Matthews to discuss the latest developments in the Bangladesh hostage situation.

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July 5, 2016

When Hany Farid started working a few decades ago on analyzing digital images, he was thinking about how to detect forgeries and copies of still photos and probably hadn’t even heard of the word “jihad.” Fast forward to 2016. The Dartmouth professor...

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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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