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February 6, 2019

"The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) this week invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to host a public conversation about removing extremist content from the platform. The group extended the invitation following Zuckerberg's commitment earlier this...

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February 6, 2019

The U.S. has done a good job of locking up people who are convicted of terrorism, but what happens when those people have completed their terms? Lucinda Creighton, senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, joins host J.J. Green to discuss the...

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February 5, 2019

“YouTube has refused to take down a rare neo-Nazi manifesto, which is a beloved text of violent far-right groups who lionise Adolf Hitler and cult killer Charles Manson. Siege, written by American neo-Nazi James Mason and published in 1992, discusses...

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February 4, 2019

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "It’s 15 years since Facebook was born and – like all adolescents – it’s getting into trouble. However, Facebook’s kind of trouble is a little more serious than most teenagers. We at the Counter Extremism...

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February 1, 2019

CEP Senior Advisor and former UK Ambassador to Ireland Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "It is too easy to be smug about the relative peace that has prevailed in Northern Ireland over the past 20 years. The threat of a return to violence in Northern Ireland...

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January 31, 2019

"Less than two years after victory was declared over ISIS-aligned militants in Marawi, the threat of extremism has returned to the southern Philippines. In response, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to hit resurgent militants hard, but...

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January 31, 2019

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the worldwide threat assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.

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January 31, 2019

Senior Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Ginsberg writes in the Diplomatic Courier: "On January 23, 2019, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spotted on Google’s YouTube platform vulgar videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which would...

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January 30, 2019

“Designed to spread the vengeful ideology of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, a website named Revolution Muslim (RM) was quietly launched into cyberspace in 2007 out of a Brooklyn apartment. RM was the brainchild of New Yorker Jesse Morton and Yousef al...

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January 29, 2019

“From the depths of ISIS' self-proclaimed territory in Somalia, members of the terror group released a propaganda video, 'Men Who Have Been True', celebrating dead fighters and detailing the branch’s endeavors to provide food and medical aid to the...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On January 23, 2019, two car bombs exploded outside of a mosque in Benghazi, Libya, killing 41 people and injuring 80 others. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but remnants suggested an ISIS affiliate was responsible.  

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