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On the anniversary of the 2018 Christmas market attack in Strasbourg, France, the leading expert on prison radicalization and CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson is warning that further action is needed to prevent future terrorist attacks. Five people...
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CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, ISIS supporters established a presence on the messenger platforms Hoop Messenger and TamTam...
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Report Marks Second Time Awlaki’s Propaganda Re-uploaded to Platform (New York, N.Y.) - On December 5, The Times (London) reported its discovery of over 100 radicalizing extremist videos from notorious al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki on Google...
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Last Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki focused in part on how the Google-owned platform polices hate speech, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other content expressly prohibited by the company’s terms...
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On November 29, 2019, Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist on early release from prison, murdered two people and wounded three others in a knife attack near the London Bridge. In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, it was revealed that Khan was part...
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CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, a neo-Nazi British teenager was convicted for plotting attacks on synagogues in the United...
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On November 15, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Jason Brown , a.k.a. Abdul Ja’Me , was arrested for attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. According to the DOJ affidavit , Brown was radicalized in prison by...
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Enacted in 2018, Germany’s pioneering and ambitious Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG ) represents an important milestone in curbing online extremism. However, the law, which fines online platforms for failures to delete illegal content, has been a...
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CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, the pro-ISIS group Muntasir Media issued a threat to Spain and ISIS continued circulating a...
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Twitter has suspended internationally designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah from its platform. The decision came in response to criticism and pressure from U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer , Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick...
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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