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May 7, 2018

Facebook’s “suggested friends” feature is helping jihadists around the world connect with one another to forge new terror networks, according to a new study. Researchers with the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project studied the social media...

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May 6, 2018

Facebook (FB) is being accused of inadvertently helping Islamist extremists connect and recruit new members. A new report in The Telegraph cites research suggesting that the social media giant connected and introduced thousands of extremists through...

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May 6, 2018

Facebook is connecting more than just distant relatives who post too much about their children, at least per a recent study that concludes it is connecting new affiliates to the Islamic State’s digital networks. According to the Telegraph...

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May 5, 2018

Facebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists to one another, via its 'suggested friends' feature, it can be revealed. Researchers, who analysed the Facebook activities of a thousand Isil supporters...

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April 30, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The recent hearings at the US Senate and House of Representatives have not quashed the troubling issues surrounding Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his teams of lawyers and strategists projected concern...

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April 27, 2018

YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter also provide a platform to extremism – from ISIS-related videos to white nationalism. Even though this content clearly violates these companies’ Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, (too) little is being done to...

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April 26, 2018

For years, YouTube has bragged to marketers that its laissez-faire attitude toward video creators was a feature, not a bug. The company was pioneering a form of mass entertainment more democratic, diverse, and authentic than traditional TV, its...

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April 26, 2018

CEP Communications Director Steven Cohen discusses the increase in the use of vehicles as weapons of terror due in part to extremist propaganda and online radicalization.

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April 25, 2018

On Monday, a man turned a van against the pedestrians walking along Yonge Street in north Toronto, killing ten people and injuring over a dozen.It doesn’t take much time to think of other recent attacks that used this method—Nice, Berlin, London, New...

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April 24, 2018

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller Discusses The Toronto Van Attack And ISIS Propaganda Online With Global News Radio Host Mike Stubbs.

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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