CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "And while IS has certainly lost territory, they have not lost the capacity to operate online, radicalising the vulnerable, aided and abetted by our global tech platforms. Forced out of outright denial that...

The main method for detecting the illegal imagery was created in 2009 by Microsoft and Hany Farid, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The software, known as PhotoDNA, can use computers to recognize photos, even altered ones...

Tech & Terrorism: Twitter Reverses Course, Suspends Hamas and Hezbollah

Twitter has suspended internationally designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah from its platform. The decision came in response to criticism and pressure from U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer , Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick...

This story from a French newspaper describes part of the the discussion at CEP's Nov. 7 event in Paris: Terrorism: Threats and Challenges after the fall of the Caliphate. " Jihadist movement, radicalization, online extremism ... At an international...

"Despite the recent death of its top leader, the Jihadist Islamic State (IS) group is far from being annihilated, and will remain a fearsome enemy for years, officials and experts in Paris warned on Thursday. At the symposium "Threats and Challenges...

"Meeting for a symposium in Paris, entitled "Threats and challenges after the fall of the caliphate", organized by the Center for Terrorism Analysis and Counter Terrorism Project, they all expressed their pessimism. Gilles de Kerchove said that...

"'We are losing (Islamists) detainees' in Syrian camps ... Thursday, one of the participants of the conference organized by the Center for the analysis of terrorism, chaired by Jean-Charles Brisard, and the think-tank American Counter Extremism...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Declares Leadership Replacements Following the Deaths of Baghdadi, Muhajir

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 found that ISIS’s Al Furqan Media Foundation formally announced the deaths of their...

Ctrl+Alt+Del-Hate at New America

Jesse Morton of Parallel Networks presents "Ctrl+Alt+Del-Hate" - a new project to recreate a counter polarization, hate and far right-wing e-magazine - at an event at New America. The project is sponsored by Counter Extremism Project.

"The decision to exempt Qataris from Schengen visa raised serious suspicions over Qatar's relationship with leading Muslim Brotherhood activists and the support it provides to radical Islamist organisations. Two years ago, Counter Extremism Project...