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April 8, 2019

LIBE Committee Passes Critical Vote on the Terror Content File

CEP issued statements today following the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on the draft report on Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. CEP Executive Director David...

Press Release

April 4, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: CEP Urges Facebook to Halt Lobbying Efforts to Stymie Government Oversight and Regulation

Last weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , called for governments and regulators to become involved in censoring harmful content online. However, Mr. Zuckerberg’s call was intentionally heavy on idealism and rhetoric, and light on specifics. Once...

Press Release

April 4, 2019

CEP Statement Applauding Australia Parliament’s Passage of Legislation Regulating Extremist Content Online

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued a statement today commending the Parliament of Australia for passing l egislation regulating social media companies in the wake of the New Zealand shootings, that read in part: “Australia’s pioneering...

Press Release

April 3, 2019

How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a first step toward...

Press Release

April 1, 2019

Extremist Content Online: Videos From New Zealand Shooting Remain Online

CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Today’s release shows that two weeks after the New Zealand shootings, the infamous video is still being...

Press Release

March 28, 2019

ICYMI: Neo-Nazi Groups Allowed to Stay on Facebook Because They ‘Do Not Violate Community Standards’

CEP's new report, The Extreme Right on Facebook, documents Facebook’s failure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi pages that clearly violate its terms of service. CEP identified and monitored a small selection of 40 Facebook pages belonging to...

Press Release

March 27, 2019

Tech & Terrorism: Tech’s Self-Regulation Fails to Set Standards for Removing Extremist Content

The recent New Zealand attacks have once again made clear that the tech industry’s preferred paradigm of self-regulation has failed. Tech companies have been unable or unwilling to establish clear standards of what constitutes impermissible extremist...

Press Release

March 26, 2019

Two Internet Registrars Remove Neo-Nazi Forum After Being Alerted by CEP

CEP released the following statement today after Hostinger International, Ltd., an international web hosting company, suspended Fascist Forge, a neo-Nazi web forum. Hostinger suspended the forum after CEP flagged its history of advocating violent...

Press Release

March 26, 2019

 How Europeans Join Global Jihad

What made Europeans join global jihad? On April 8 in New York, GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project will host an event to present research findings into the pathways and patterns of individual jihadists who joined the terrorism movement, as a...

Press Release

March 25, 2019

ICYMI: CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, in NPR Interview, Says Suspend Facebook Live Following Mosque Shootings

CEP Senior Advisor and a leading expert on digital forensics Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed by National Public Radio about tech companies’ failure to prevent the reuploading of the New Zealand attack video. Said Farid: "The repeated uploading is an...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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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