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(New York, N.Y.) — The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers discovered regional white...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the European Eye on Radicalization (EER) are inviting you to a webinar focusing on combating the financing of violent extremism.
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German police forces on Sunday took a 32-year-old Iranian national into custody on suspicions of obtaining unspecified amounts of cyanide and ricin for use in an “Islamist-motivated” terror attack after having received a tip from a foreign...
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In 2022, extremists continued to spread various video, photo, text, and audio propaganda; call for and celebrate acts of violence; dox their perceived opponents; and spread manuals and instructions on several websites to assist individuals in...
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Google’s Jigsaw announced that it is developing a free software tool to help smaller websites improve their content moderation capabilities. The purported new tool comes as tech companies will be forced to remove terrorist content from their sites or...
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Earlier this week, U.N. Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Markus Potzel met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, to warn that the Taliban’s recently announced education and work bans on women will worsen Afghanistan’s...
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(New York, N.Y. / Berlin, Germany) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a presentation of a new book by Kacper Rekawek entitled "Foreign Fighters in Ukraine. The Brown–Red Cocktail" . The Russian (re-)invasion of Ukraine in 2022...
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(New York, N.Y.) — On Sunday, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists seized control of a counterterrorism center in northwestern Pakistan and held hostages while demanding safe passage into neighboring Afghanistan. Following failed negotiations...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located four new ISIS propaganda videos...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence on popular social media platforms in order to hold companies accountable for failures to prevent the...
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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