"'Rightwing extremist propagandists have been looking for a Telegram alternative for several years,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, who first alerted the Guardian to the SimpleX migration of far-right extremists. 'This is the most significant platform change for these specific, extreme, privacy-focused online white supremacist communities to date.'"

"Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project considers the initiative to be fundamentally understandable: "If a person in Germany only has temporary residence status and makes such statements online, it cannot be expected that this will be accepted without consequence and that the general public will have to bear the risk that this person potentially represents," he said in an interview with IPPEN.MEDIA."

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project, 'Right-wing extremists in the military pose security risks beyond their potential for violence.'"

"'Right-wing extremists in the military pose security risks beyond their potential for violence,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, an expert on the far right at the Counter Extremism Project, a New York City-based nonprofit terrorism watchdog. 'The recent leak case highlights the possibility that individuals could share sensitive information with a broader online audience or with potential extremists or other hostile actors. Ideological views that sympathize with a U.S. opponent might also heighten the risk of sharing sensitive information.'"

"New evidence is emerging that terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan are stealing humanitarian donations intended for people suffering from disasters. Also, social media companies are turning a blind eye to their terrorist activities. In this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said both are glaring problems."

"In 2022, Twitter found itself under pressure to cancel accounts linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. At first it resisted, telling the Counter Extremism Project that @igrciran hadn’t violated its policies, even though it had tweeted a threat to assassinate President Trump...
A spokesperson from the Counter Extremism Project told The Washington Times that terrorist content has decreased on social media platforms since 2014, but there’s still much work to do."