Fact:
On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.
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On and off the battlefield, ISIS has proven itself to be especially resilient and adaptable. With the terror group having lost large swathes of its territory, especially in Mosul and Raqqa, they have shifted to tactics both old and new. They have...
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Sunday, August 12 marks the scheduled return of Unite The Right 2, a sequel to last year’s rally, where a vehicle attack carried out by a white supremacist killed one woman and injured at least 30 others. Previously, the Counter Extremism Project...
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On July 29, a group of Westerners cycling through Tajikistan were attacked, resulting in four killed, including two Americans, a Swiss citizen and a Dutch national. Three more were injured in the attack, which ISIS quickly claimed credit for. The...
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August marks the first anniversary of the tragic events in Charlottesville – and despite all the uproar that followed, Facebook’s promises to take more action against hate groups have rung hollow. The Guardian reports that the same actors involved in...
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen issued a statement in response to reports about Google’s plans to relaunch a censored version of its search engine in China to meet that authoritarian government’s demands to limit free speech that read in part:...
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CEP, to better understand the prevalence of ISIS videos on YouTube, conducted a three month study using a web crawler and its own video-matching technology, eGLYPH. CEP searched for the presence on YouTube of a small sample of 229 previously...
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement in response to tech giants releasing figures on how much hateful content they blocked or removed under Germany’s Network Enforcement Act as well as reports that the European Union is planning to...
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The shooting in Toronto this week demonstrated the extent to which ISIS has mastered the use of social media and the Internet to spread its propaganda. Although authorities have stated that there was no known terrorist involvement for the incident...
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Facebook released its second quarter financial results this week and the results were not good. Its stock prices were down approximately 20 percent, and its depressed long-term revenue growth and profit outlook was described as “shocking.” As Wired...
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MIAMI – On Friday, July 27, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Asymmetrica will host a discussion in Miami on a new report about transnational organized crime in Latin America’s Tri-Border Area in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, commonly known...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.
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