ISIS – The Terrible Twos

The rise of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) took much of the world by storm. In a 2014 interview with the New Yorker , President Obama pronounced the blood-spattered theocratic gang to be no more than a “JV squad” (compared with the...

CEP Releases Boko Haram Resources as Two Vie for Leadership of Terror Group

(New York, NY) -- The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is releasing updated resources on Nigerian terror group Boko Haram as two men compete for control of the terror group, which has killed more than 20,000 people since 2009.

Most platforms rely on users to flag content to trigger moderation—in other words, platforms don’t police content before someone flags it as offensive. Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth, is one of the original developers of PhotoDNA, a...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox Business

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Advisor Tara Maller Discusses Effectiveness of U.S. Airstrikes Against ISIS on Fox Business' Cavuto Coast to Coast.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the effectiveness of U.S. targeted airstrikes in support of Libyan fighters attempting to drive ISIS terrorists from the port city of Sirte.

Hamas and ISIS: The Ideological Ties That Bind

Following the horrific shooting attack at a Tel Aviv restaurant that killed four Israelis and wounded more than a dozen others in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was “shocked” by Hamas’s statements praising the attack and promising...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Advisor Tara Maller Talks About ISIS's Secret Service Unit on Fox News' Shepard Smith.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller is interviewed on Fox News regarding the discovery of an ISIS division that plans and supports attacks in Western countries and the extent of ISIS's success in radicalizing and inciting attacks through its online...

I asked the team whether showing prisoner abuses could play into the hands of ISIS propagandists, who already use elements of violent video games to recruit fighters. “In this case, I doubt it,” the developer said. “Even terror groups would...

CEP Research Analyst Brian Stewart, in this op-ed, notes that ISIS took much of the world by storm. "In a 2014 interview with The New Yorker, US President Barack Obama pronounced the blood-spattered theocratic gang to be no more than a “JV squad”...