Register Today: CEP Event to Probe Solutions to Online Extremism

For Immediate Release Monday, October 16, 2017

November 13 panel discussion to feature Dr. Hany Farid, Peter Bergen, and Fran Townsend

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) will bring together a distinguished group of experts on November 13 in Washington, D.C., for a public discussion of the challenges of extremism and terrorism in an online world.

Rights and Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms in an Age of Global Extremism will feature: CEP's Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, Dartmouth College professor and the world’s leading authority on digital forensics; National Security expert and Vice President of the New America Foundation Peter Bergen; and Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Reception to follow.

Rights and Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms in an Age of Global Extremism

Monday, November 13

3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20001

To RSVP, please click here.

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