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January 18, 2018

A terrorist bomb-making video watched by Salman Abedi before he blew himself up at a Manchester pop concert is still being shared on YouTube, the US Senate has heard. A senate committee questioned how the video was getting round the web giant’s...

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January 18, 2018

Other experts warned that despite the social media companies claiming they can identify and remove extremist content within hours of it being posted, they are still not moving fast enough. According to the non-profit Counter Extremism Projects...

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January 18, 2018

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses criticism ​leveled against tech companies for not doing more to detect and remove terrorist content by members of the Senate Commerce Committee.

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January 17, 2018

Burton factory worker Munir Mohammed used an extremist video to learn how to build a bomb – and that film was still available online only last week, despite his plot being foiled 13 months ago, it is claimed. David Ibsen, executive director of the...

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January 17, 2018

A bomb-making manual believed to have been downloaded by a Derby man who was days away from launching a massive terrorist attack is still on Google, it has been claimed. David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, which helps...

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January 16, 2018

“The UK and the EU must recognize the semantic fallacy of a difference between the military and political wings of Hezbollah,” said David Ibsen, the executive director of the Counter-Extremism Project, a US-based non-government organization. “There...

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January 3, 2018

CEP Senior Advisor and former National Intelligence Manager for Iran Norman Roule discusses the Iranian protests, the most significant since the 1979 revolution, and what might lie ahead in that country.

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December 26, 2017

CEP Senior Adviser Norm Roule discusses Iran, Yemen conflict, and extremism in the Middle East on Bloomberg TV.

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December 10, 2017

ISIS cyber-hacker Junaid Hussain has left behind a legacy of hate that spans the globe and continues to haunt the online world after his death. David Ibsen, director of the Counter Extremism Project, a US-based group combating terrorism and...

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December 8, 2017

The world's most popular blogging platform has come under fire for continuing to host banned neo-Nazi group Scottish Dawn.Despite being put on a list of forbidden organisations, after being revealed as an alias of the far-right National Action...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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