Social networks have long stressed they will help legitimate investigations of crimes and attacks, but have resisted efforts to police or censor the vast amounts content flowing through them. But social media groups are capable of doing more to...

New research in Science Magazine shows lone actors shouldn’t be the top priority when it comes to tracking ISIS online – groups should. In the study, computer scientists charted the ecology of pro-ISIS activity in 2015 on Europe’s biggest social...

The father of a victim of the Islamic State's deadly attacks on Paris last year is suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for aiding the terrorist group. "Social networks have long stressed they will help legitimate investigations of crimes and attacks...

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been promoting their new live video features, but are struggling to find ways to keep out content that promotes violence. But social media groups are capable of doing more to prevent and remove horrific...

The jumbled picture emerging of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen — his statements to friends and coworkers and his tangled personal history — lay bare the dilemma for law enforcement in confronting the growing threat of home-grown lone wolf terrorists....

The Sunday terror attack in Orlando, Florida highlights the need for social media companies to more actively disrupt extremist messaging on their platforms, CEP Executive Director David Ibsen said. “It is likely that [Mateen] was self-radicalized by...

Mark Wallace, CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, said it was difficult to know how many LGBT men and women had been killed by IS, but the practice was well documented. "The targeting, persecution and killing of LGBT [people] in Isis-controlled...

CEP President Frances Townsend on C-SPAN

CEP President Frances Townsend Speaks on C-SPAN's Washington Journal After Orlando Terror Attack.

CEP Research Analyst Marielle Harris was interviewed by BBC Radio about the attack at an Orlando, Floriida gay nightclub. “We know that Mateen was bipolar and that he was reported to have hit his wife. We also know that he was questioned by the FBI...

CEP President Fran Townsend was interviewed on CSPAN about what led up to the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, including the gunman.