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UN Welcomes Tech Counter-terrorism Collaboration
July 18, 2017
A UN official has welcomed the launch by technology companies Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube of a "Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism," which will ramp up cooperation between these companies to remove "violent extremist" content from the internet and provides for expanding collaboration with the UN and EU on countering terrorist messaging.
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UNESCO Seeks "Self-Regulation" to Combat "Fake News"
July 18, 2017
At a conference of European media lawyers in Paris, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Guy Berger, called for more "self-regulation" by the media and internet companies in response to the proliferation of "fake news" that might influence the democratic process.
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CoE: Media Must Avoid "Sensationalizing" Terror Attacks
July 18, 2017
The Council of Europe (CoE) recently held a colloquium in Strasbourg on the role and duties of the media in reporting terrorism, the purpose of which was, in part, to urge media actors to recognize a duty "to avoid sensationalist media reports which lead to the spread of public terror, fear and feelings of chaos" during and after terror attacks.
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Turkey's Hardline Islamists Converge with Anti-NATO Agenda
July 17, 2017
Turkey's Islamist authoritarian government, still waging a mega-purge against the grassroots Islamist organization of Fetullah Gulen accused by Ankara of plotting the summer 2016 coup attempt against the country's president, has demonstrated a marked tilt towards the military's Eurasianist clique that views cooperation with Russia as the optimal alternative to NATO.
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MB Combines Ideological Expansion with Mainstream Politics
July 17, 2017
A new report from Harvard University's Kennedy School suggests important lessons for countering the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) strategies of education as Islamist ideological indoctrination, of penetration and capture of mainstream political institutions, and of opportunistic alliances with Islamist extremists.
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