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June 23, 2016

Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College, has developed a software algorithm that he claims will allow platforms like Facebook and Twitter to identify content created by the Islamic State and similar extremist groups and their supporters...

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June 23, 2016

The web has become one of the most powerful tools today used by terrorist networks like the Islamic State, or ISIS. Two researchers — physicist Neil Johnson and computer scientist Hany Farid — are among the many to come out with new technologies...

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June 23, 2016

Dr. Hany Farid recently teamed up with the Counter Extremism Project to develop new technology to help Internet companies detect terrorist images and videos and remove them. In this interview, Dr. Farid explains the technology and how it can help...

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June 23, 2016

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on MSNBC

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid Introduced NORex on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

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June 22, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Yahoo News on SiriusXM

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Explains CEP's Robust Hashing Technology.

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June 22, 2016

Once dependent on leaflets and videotapes, terrorist groups now use social media as a chief recruiting tool. Each day, Twitter users tweet an average of 500 million times and more than a billion people log into Facebook. Instead of relying on humans...

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June 21, 2016

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Tara Maller, the Spokesperson and a Senior Policy Advisor for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), to discuss the growing threat – and responses to – online extremism.

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June 21, 2016

An article in RUE89 discusses the challenge of combating online extremist propaganda and CEP's new technology designed to identify and automatically remove the worst images, videos and audio content.

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June 20, 2016

Some in the tech industry are quietly expressing skepticism about a new proposal to rid the internet of Islamic State propaganda online. But the plan has an important new backer: the White House. — The blessing: “We welcome the launch of initiatives...

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June 20, 2016

A computer scientist and a nonprofit are teaming up to use technology designed to stop child pornography from spreading across the web to take on terrorist propaganda. Defense One reports on the effort by the Counter Extremism Project and Hany Farid...

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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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