“All this month, we've been reporting on toxic content - what it is, what's to be done about it, both questions that YouTube has thought long and hard about. For years, the YouTube videos of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki inspired terrorists...

ICYMI: New Report on Germany’s NetzDG Online Hate Speech Law Shows No Threat of Over-Blocking

CEP, in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies ( CEPS ), launched a joint report analyzing the impact of Germany’s Network Enforcement Act ( NetzDG ). In the report, Germany’s NetzDG: A key test for combatting online hate...

This article in the Germany's Tagesspiegel, describes efforts to improve Germany's Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), which came into force about one year ago. "A recently published report by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the...

"A new generation of far-right Europeans is deploying slick techniques to avoid being called neo-Nazis. David Ibsen, the executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, says far-right groups in France are among those to have borrowed heavily...

CEP Research Referenced During Parliamentary Hearing on Far-Right

On November 20, 2018, Labor Member of Parliament Stephen Doughty referenced a CEP research report during the UK Home Affairs Committee session ,"Hate crime and its violent consequences."

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and William Echikson of the Centre for European Policy Studies write: "In reality, concerns that NetzDG would lead to censorship have proven unfounded. Its introduction has precipitated a trickle rather than a flood...

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) introduced a practical handbook for educators to combat early signs of radicalisation in French youth during a discussion on “Secularism and Prevention of Radicalisation.” An increasing number of young people in...

Nearly two years after being driven from its stronghold in Yemen, one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchises has entrenched itself in the country’s hinterlands as a devastating war creates the conditions for its comeback. The danger of another...

THEY SAID IT!

Members of Congress have weighed in on the numerous problems that have recently plagued social media companies. In this short compilation of quotes, Senators and House members agree that the era of self-regulation for tech companies should be brought...

Online Hate Speech Incites Real World Violence

Major tech giants are facing mounting pressure from law enforcement officials to provide information and monitor online terror activity. The Sydney Morning Herald reported last week that Lynne Owens, the director-general of Britain’s National Crime...