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July 8, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Siege’s Ties to Extremists

James Mason’s neo-Nazi manifesto, Siege , has since inspired a generation of neo-Nazis since it was first published as a single volume in 1992. The book sparked a violent online subculture called Siege Culture, devoted to Mason’s calls for...

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July 1, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Blood & Honour and Combat 18 Maintain Online Presence

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, CEP details the online presence for neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour and Combat 18, both...

Press Release

June 27, 2019

House Homeland Security Committee Takes Aim at Tech Industry’s Failure to Halt Spread of Online Extremist Content

CEP commended the House Committee on Homeland Security for holding a hearing on social media companies' efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. The hearing was called in the wake of March’s New Zealand mosque shootings—in which a...

Press Release

June 26, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Will be Ripe for Misuse

This month, Facebook announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency , the Libra, by mid-2020. Already, regulators in both Europe and the United States are expressing concern about its public policy implications . Cryptocurrency , already one of the...

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June 21, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Abdullah al-Faisal’s Ties to Extremists

Abdullah al-Faisal is a U.S.-designated Islamist propagandist who has recruited for ISIS and facilitated travel to ISIS-held territory. In announcing his indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Faisal’s lectures, websites, and...

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June 20, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid in Finale: “Companies Have to Start Taking More Responsibility for What They’ve Created”

CEP today released the finale of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the video, titled “ Responsibility ,” Dr. Farid calls on tech companies to take more...

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June 18, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Groups in Europe Threaten Violence

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’s edition details the 27 websites used by ISIS to spread violent propaganda videos and how the...

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June 17, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Ahmad Musa Jibril’s Ties to Extremists

Ahmad Musa Jibril is an Islamist preacher well-known for being an influential jihadist voice in Syria and for having radicalized Khuram Shazad Butt, one of three London Bridge attackers who killed eight people and wounded almost 50 others on June 3...

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June 13, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: Tech Companies Need “A Fundamental Change” to Tackle Extremist Content

CEP today released the eighth of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In this week’s video, titled " Pressure Points ," Dr. Farid calls for a collective effort...

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June 10, 2019

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists & Neo-Nazis Continue Thriving on YouTube

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’s edition urges YouTube to strictly enforce its new policy for removing extremist videos, in...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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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