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Facebook was back on the public relations trail this week, as Mark Zuckerberg provided an in-depth interview to The New Yorker . When speaking to Mr. Zuckerberg , reporter Evan Osnos recalled Facebook’s failures to moderate hate speech and extremism...
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The White House has accused Iranian-backed militias in Iraq of carrying out recent “life-threatening attacks” on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Baghdad and Basra. Recently declassified reports detail Iran’s role in training and financing Shiite...
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The European Commission today released its regulation on terrorist content online. While the legislation is a step forward, it is is flawed in that it gives tech companies one hour from the time a piece of content is flagged as being extremist to...
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A new European far-right group calling themselves Order of Dawn has apparently started a cryptocurrency crowdfunding campaign for their violent “Reconquista ” of Europe. Order of Dawn endorses racism and anti-Semitism. Specifically, the group is...
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New research shows that the use of hate speech and extremism online has “surged on shadowy social media platforms” like 4chan and Gab.ai, with “white-supremacist themes” targeting Jews and African Americans. Social media alone is not to blame and web...
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testified before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday and as expected, her testimony was filled with familiar refrains, PR-laden apologies, proclamations of supposed successes and promises to do more...
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CEP issued a statement ahead of Congressional testimony by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that read in part: "The Counter Extremism Project calls upon members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Select...
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So, it is the case again. Social media companies are facilitating the mobilization of radical and dangerous groups. Just over a week ago, neo-Nazis took to the streets in Germany to demonstrate and intimidate any outsiders or immigrants. Following...
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In recent days, Facebook has trumpeted its efforts and success in disrupting influence campaigns undertaken by foreign actors. For some , this represents a change in public relations tactics from the company’s “defensive” nature. And while the...
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On August 22, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a new audio message titled “Give Glad Tidings To The Patient” – a reference to Quran 2:155 referring to the testing of the faithful. The recording was released via ISIS’s most authoritative...
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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