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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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June 7, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: The Turner Diaries’ Ties to Extremists

For more than 40 years, William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries has served as a “ Handbook for White Victory ” for white nationalists around the world. The book has directly inspired at least three terror attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City...

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June 6, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Do We Want to Reward the Bad Behavior of [Tech] Companies?”

CEP today released the seventh of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Adviser Dr. Hany Farid , an incoming professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled “ Products & Consumers ,” Dr. Farid urges end users to question the...

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June 6, 2019

CEP Statement on YouTube Policy: Focus on Removing Videos Denying Historic Violence & Violent Content

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement today in response to Google-owned YouTube announcing a new policy that read in part: "Instead of simply enforcing its long-standing community guidelines consistently and transparently, YouTube has...

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May 31, 2019

Extremism Spotlight: Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Ties to Extremist Individuals & Organizations

Notorious al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP ) propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011, but his death did not silence him. Awlaki’s lectures continued to live on in the Internet and inspire extremism and violence...

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May 30, 2019

CEP’s Dr. Hany Farid: “Online Extremism, Child Pornography, Child Sex Trade … It’s the Wild West Out There”

CEP today released the sixth 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 “ Advertising ,” Dr. Farid asserts that the current business...

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May 29, 2019

CEP to Release New Resources Detailing Links Between Extremism & Online Radicalization

Earlier this year, CEP highlighted the online presence of dangerous extremist propagandists and notorious extremist content with links to violence in its Extremism Spotlight series. Continuing to allow this material to remain online to radicalize...

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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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