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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...
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CEP today released a new study that finds YouTube’s efforts to proactively remove extremist content from its platform are failing. The report calls into question YouTube’s claims of being able to remove ISIS videos quickly and effectively. Using a...
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New York, NY – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) will hold a press call with Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Dr. Farid will discuss the release of a new CEP report detailing ISIS content on YouTube. WHO: Dr...
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement in response to the attack today in Lübeck, Germany: “While all the facts surrounding today’s tragedy are not yet known, what is clear is that violence has become all too common in today’s world...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ’s latest interview with Recode might give you a sense of déjà vu. The 90-minute conversation was simply a regurgitation of the same talking points from the company’s worldwide apology tour. Most notably, Mr. Zuckerberg...
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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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