People from various hacking collectives have tried for several months to block social media accounts that spread propaganda and attempt to recruit fighters for the Islamic State, but those campaigns gained a new energy on Twitter after the Paris...

CEP Profiles 24 New American Foreign Fighters, Financiers, and Supporters of Extremist Groups

CEP is releasing 24 new profiles of Americans who have fought with, allegedly attempted to join, or who stand accused of providing material or financial support to extremist groups. The new profiles add to the existing database of 66 American...

CEP Releases Resources on Extremism in Mali Following Attack by Al-Mourabitoun and AQIM

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is releasing new resources on extremism and counter-extremism in the West African country of Mali following the killing of 19 hostages at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital of Bamako. CEP is...

There is no doubt that Islamic State (ISIS) has taken responsibility on the Paris, France attacks—an event that undoubtedly forced the world to stand still. The Counter Extremism Project, an organization that works to understand and counter the ideas...

Given that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have proven adept at using social media to disseminate propaganda and incite fear, it seems obvious that platforms like Facebook and Twitter would aggressively and mercilessly delete such content and...

Tens of thousands of Twitter accounts that support ISIS (now called the Islamic State) went down thanks to a rogue hacker organization called the Ghost Security Group. "I do think the majority of the reporting is being done by groups like Anonymous...

The Belgian government admitted this week it had lost control of a rundown Brussels district linked to a series of terror attacks in Belgium and neighboring France, including those last Friday in Paris. “There are several other neighborhoods and...

PARIS— The Belgian government admitted this week it had lost control of a rundown Brussels district linked to a series of terror attacks in Belgium and neighboring France, including those last Friday in Paris. “There are several other neighborhoods...

A “staggering failure” of the West to offer an alternative narrative to the “seemingly attractive” message spread by Islamic State and other extremist groups has been condemned by a leading civil rights expert. Speaking on Wednesday (18 November) in...

Barbarism in Paris

Call it l’année de la terreur. The coordinated ISIS assault on Paris November 13 marks a grisly continuation of the terror campaign that the French republic has endured this year. This campaign began in earnest in January with joint attacks on the...