March 16, 2020

Newsroom: Mosque Attack Video Still Online <[link removed]>

“A study from researchers at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit organisation that targets extremists of all stripes, shows the difficulty of ever fully scrubbing something from the internet. The study found footage of the Christchurch terror attack is accessible on at least 14 different websites, ranging from far-right messageboards to encrypted chat apps like Telegram to Google Drive. In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the company "has clear policies that prohibit violence and terrorist content. We take these issues very seriously and we remove files violating these policies when flagged by our users." CEP researchers told Newsroom the video, which had been compressed into a .zip file and uploaded to the file sharing service, had been accessible since March 15, 2019. The link to the file was shared on a far-right, Twitter-like service called Gab.”

The Wall Street Journal: Iraq Base Housing American Troops Hit By New Strike, Sustaining Tensions <[link removed]>

“Rockets struck an Iraqi base housing American troops on Saturday, lowering any expectations of de-escalation after U.S. strikes on an Iran-backed militia in response to the killing of two of its troops at the same base this week. At least 25 rockets fell on Camp Taji early Saturday, wounding three U.S. service members, two of them seriously, U.S. officials said. Two members of the Iraqi air force command were also gravely wounded in the strike, an Iraqi military spokesman said. The spokesman said the rockets had landed near the part of the base used by American and other foreign troops from the international coalition working with Iraq to combat Islamic State. Such attacks are usually carried out at night but Saturday’s occurred in broad daylight. “Today’s attack may send a message that attacks against U.S. forces will continue until they leave Iraq, and the U.S. can’t stop them,” said Ali al-Ghanemi, a lawmaker in parliament’s security and defense committee. U.S. troops face increasing dangers in Iraq, where they had previously coexisted with Iran-backed groups. This week’s rocket attacks renew tensions between Washington and Tehran, which had eased from a peak when the U.S. killed a top Iranian general on Iraqi soil in January.”

The Jerusalem Post: Hezbollah Commander Prosecuted In Austria For Terror Finance <[link removed]>

“Prosecutors in the Austrian state of Carinthia have started a trial against an alleged Hezbollah commander who spent 13 years in the central European country while reportedly being involved in financing terrorism. The trial has triggered outrage, according to the Kronen Zeitung, commonly known as the Krone, a mass circulation paper, because the Lebanese-born man is not awaiting trial in prison. Kronen Zeitung wrote: “What seems strange is that the alleged terrorist is free and not in custody,” adding that “the public prosecutor has not made an application.” The trial will formally start in early April. The unnamed Hezbollah military leader has lived in Carinthia for 13 years. The authorities have accused him of working for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The indictment states that the Hezbollah commander is a member of a terrorist organization and engaged in the finance of terrorism activities. He could face a 10-year prison sentence. The paper said that a similar case involving an accused jihadi terrorist resulted in a late arrest. The Jerusalem Post has reported that Hezbollah operatives who blew up an Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, fled to Lebanon and the authorities in Beirut refused to extradite the accused terrorists.”

United States

Military.com: The Military Surveyed Troops On Extremist Activity Decades Ago. Here's What It Found <[link removed]>

“U.S. troops will soon see a new question on routine workplace surveys: one asking whether respondents have ever “experienced or witnessed extremist activity in the workplace [or] reported such activity.” The addition is the result of a mandate from Congress in the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill. But it's not the first time the military has attempted such a survey in an effort to crack down on hate in the ranks. And documents obtained from earlier reports raise key questions about whether this method of monitoring the problem is reliable and effective. The presence -- and possible surge -- of hate group, nationalist and racial supremacist behavior and thinking in the ranks was recently spotlighted by a rash of social media incidents and a high-profile Coast Guard criminal case. After Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson was arrested on drug and gun possession charges in February 2019, investigators reported an astonishing discovery at the officer's home: a draft letter to a “known American neo-Nazi leader” in which Hasson identified himself as a white nationalist; documents appearing to target a number of high-profile lawmakers; and lengthy missives to friends in which he said he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth.”

Syria

Fox News: ISIS Advises Terrorists On Coronavirus To Avoid Europe For Jihad <[link removed]>

“After years of urging its terrorists to attack major European cities, ISIS is now advising them to steer clear due to the coronavirus, according to reports. ISIS’ al-Naba newsletter contains “sharia directives” urging its healthy members not to enter “the land of the epidemic” to avoid becoming infected, the New York Post reported Sunday. But any sick jihadists already in Europe should stay there — presumably, to sicken infidels, the paper reported. The Sunday Times of London first reported on the newsletter, according to the paper. The “healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it,” the ISIS newsletter advises, according to the Post. The newsletter instructs jihadists that the “plague” is a “torment sent by God on whomsoever He wills.” The Middle East terror group also advises jihadists to flee from a person infected with the coronavirus “as you flee from the lion,” and to clean hands with soap to avoid infection, the Military Times reported. Ten people have died from the coronavirus in Iraq, where 110 cases have been reported, according to John Hopkins University which is tracking the endemic. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe is now the virus' epicenter.”

BBC News: Islamic State: US Military Says RAF Airstrikes May Have Killed Civilians <[link removed]>

“There is “credible” evidence British airstrikes against the Islamic State group have killed civilians in Iraq and Syria, the US military has said. The Ministry of Defence has continued to deny American reports that some RAF airstrikes against IS have harmed civilians. The RAF has deployed 4,409 bombs and missiles in the five-year war with IS. The MoD's approach to identifying civilian casualties has been described as “not fit for purpose”. Airwars, a group which has been monitoring the bombing campaign and its impact on civilians, has obtained details of 11 airstrikes carried out by European nations in which at least 40 civilians were killed. The UK has admitted the RAF was involved in three of the strikes but still insists no civilians were killed. One of the incidents involving the RAF was investigated by the BBC in 2018 after a whistleblower inside the US-led anti-IS coalition reported civilian deaths. The MoD claims it has killed 3,964 IS fighters and injured 298. But so far it has accepted responsibility for just one civilian casualty - and none in the heavily-bombed cities of Raqqa and Mosul, where thousands of civilians are believed to have died.”

Iraq

The Times: Isis Video Boasts Of Deadly Attacks On Troops And Civilians <[link removed]>

“Islamic State has released a propaganda video in which it boasts of carrying out a series of guerrilla attacks in northern Iraq and killing dozens of civilians and security forces. The 30-minute video includes several terrorist attacks in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, including a mortar strike on an amateur football match and the beheading of captured Iraqi soldiers. Isis militants claim that they remain a serious threat in Iraq and are shown terrorising several towns, despite continuing operations against them by a US-led military coalition and the Iraqi army. The video comes after a grim week for the coalition forces in Iraq during which two US Marine commandos were killed in a gunfight last Sunday and a British soldier and two more Americans…”

New York Post: Inside One Man’s Secret Mission To Rescue Jihadi Brides From ISIS <[link removed]>

“It was a good thing John Carney came strapped for combat. His life hung in the balance. Decked out in a Kevlar vest, an AK-47 slung over his shoulder, Glock at his hip and Ray-Bans shielding his eyes, the former British infantryman found himself pinned down in the world’s most dangerous battlefield during the retaking of the ISIS-held city of Mosul, Iraq, in 2016. Only he wasn’t there to kill jihadists. His mission, a private and unsanctioned enterprise, was to rescue Diana Abbasi, a young Dutch woman who had joined ISIS and was therefore considered the enemy. But she was being raped by its thugs and desperately wanted out. Her father had spread the word. There was no one else to help, so Carney and his small band of ex-Kurdish commandos trailed coalition forces in a daring operation, risking their lives to save her. They dodged trip-wire mines, suicide bombers and caliphate snipers blasting anyone in the streets. Some children got shot in the back as they fled. Now Carney and his men were trapped in a shattered farmhouse. “The noise is constant: the clatter of machine guns,” Carney writes in “Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS” (Monoray), out now.”

Turkey

Asharq Al-Awsat: Turkey Orders 4 Baghdadi Relatives Jailed For Joining ISIS <[link removed]>

“A Turkish court ordered the imprisonment of four relatives of slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for joining the terrorist group. Four were sentenced to six years and three months in jail after they were convicted of joining a terrorist group. Seven others were ordered to be deported back to their countries. The defendants appeared before a court in the central Turkish region of Kırşehir. Baghdadi was killed in an American raid in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib in October. Two of the suspects denied being related to him, while two others did. They all denied belonging to ISIS despite witness testimony and the discovery of ISIS propaganda and photos of the corpses of gunmen on their mobile phones. Ankara had revealed late last year the arrest of 25 of Baghdadi’s relatives in operations in four Turkish cities. Turkey’s most prominent detainees include Baghdadi’s sister, her husband, son-in-law and one of his sons. They were arrested in Syria’s Azaz region. Another, Ismail al-Issawi, who is a close aide to Baghdadi, was turned over to Iraq. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had previously stated that Issawi had revealed Badghadi’s whereabouts in Idlib ahead of the US raid that killed him.”

Afghanistan

The Washington Post: Standoff Between Afghan President Ghani And Rival Abdullah Threatens Taliban Peace Deal <[link removed]>

“The most dangerous place in the Afghan capital today isn’t under threat from Taliban or Islamic State insurgents. A single block near the presidential palace, bristling with guns, has become ground zero in a surreal war of nerves between two civilian politicians both claiming to be the country’s legitimate leader. Just a short walk from the compound of President Ashraf Ghani, the incumbent whose reelection was announced last month, gunmen in armored vehicles guard the smaller palace of his archrival Abdullah Abdullah, who insists he was cheated out of victory and is forming a parallel government. Across the street, gunmen guard the office of Abdurrashid Dostom, a former army general now allied with Abdullah, who has reoccupied the compound he once used as a vice president under Ghani. No shots have been fired, giving the confrontation an eerie, stage-managed feel. But as the standoff drags into its second week, many Afghans fear the slightest incident could ignite a violent conflagration between rival camps, plunging the country into chaos and dooming planned negotiations between the government and the Taliban to end Afghanistan’s 18-year war. The insurgents have vowed to continue their attacks if no settlement is reached.”

Al Jazeera: Afghan Gov't Delays Taliban Prisoner Release, Endangering Deal <[link removed]>

“The Afghan government has postponed its plan to release Taliban prisoners, a senior official said, a decision that could sabotage a deal signed last month between the armed group and the United States. Javid Faisal, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said on Saturday the releases were being delayed because more time was needed to review the list of Taliban prisoners. “We are ready to start the process the way it is described in the presidential decree but we won't release anyone if there is no guarantee that they will not return to fighting,” he said. “The Taliban have to show flexibility.” Earlier this week, President Ashraf Ghani announced that 1,500 Taliban prisoners would be freed as a “gesture of goodwill” in an attempt to resolve one of the long-running disputes with the armed group that had stalled intra-Afghan peace talks. Ghani's decree said the government would release 1,500 captives starting Saturday if the Taliban reduced violence, with plans to free another 3,500 prisoners after negotiations begin. The Taliban rejected the offer and demanded the release of nearly 5,000 captives, citing it as one of the conditions behind the US-Taliban deal signed last month that excluded Kabul.”

Pakistan

The New York Times: Pakistan Builds Border Fence, Limiting Militants And Families Alike <[link removed]>

“Above the trucks and travelers lining up at the main eastern gateway between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a glinting new landmark scales the dun-colored mountains: Parallel mesh fences, a couple of feet apart and topped with coils of razor wire, climb from the border crossing up over the dizzying crags. The section of fence overlooking Torkham is just a glimpse of a 1,600-mile barrier begun four years ago by Pakistan’s military and set to be completed this year. Nearly 9,000 miles from President Trump’s border wall with Mexico, Pakistan has quietly been building its own version to try to control what has long been one of the world’s most porous and lawless frontiers. The Pakistani Army credits the fence with helping to transform security in the country, sharply cutting terrorist attacks after a sustained army offensive pushed many militants — and tens of thousands of civilian refugees — into Afghanistan. Yet the barrier is also a projection of hard power in its own right, to the detriment of diplomacy with Afghanistan and the life of Pashtun tribes that had functionally ignored the border for generations.”

Modern Diplomacy: Pakistan Committed To Curbing Money Laundering And Terror Financing <[link removed]>

“Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. It has nine associate members and Asia Pacific Group is one of them. Pakistan is the member of APG because of this membership it is bound to comply with the recommendations. Pakistan was placed in the grey list for the first time in 2012 and remained there till 2015. Since June 2018, Pakistan has once again been put in the grey list. In this regard, FATF gave 27 points agenda to Pakistan for countering money laundering and terrorist financing to avoid being blacklisted. The basic theme of this 27 points agenda revolves around high level political commitment from Pakistan to work with the FATF and AGP. While working with them it has to strengthen its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) regime and address its strategic counter-terrorist financing-deficiencies within various fields. With regard to commitment and progress over the recommendations given by FATF, the government of Pakistan, as a result of restless efforts and struggle, has been successful in fulfilling the fourteen points out of 27 point agenda.”

Yemen

Asharq Al-Awsat: Houthis Storm 'Nasserist's Headquarters' In New Crime Against Yemenis <[link removed]>

“The Houthi group in Sanaa has committed new crimes on Saturday by storming the headquarters of the Nasserist Unionist People's Organization and imposing new taxes on residents. Politicians and partisans denounced this violation, saying that it is a resumption of the group’s attitude in oppression and confiscation of funds and properties. Witnesses from Sanaa said that Houthis have imposed new taxes on residents under the excuse of supporting the war efforts. Residents in Sanaa told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that Houthi members threatened to punish those who refuse to donate through depriving them of gas bottles and any humanitarian aid delivered by international organizations. Upon these violations, students of the University of Science and Technology protested against Houthis, saying they have laid hands over the university in the last weeks. Protesters chanted demanding the prompt release of the university's president kidnapped by the group. In a related context, the UN human rights office in Sanaa issued its report on Saturday on the insurgent militias' violations against civilians and public-private properties. The report archived more than 18,000 crimes in Sanaa in one day including murder, torturing and looting of properties.”

Middle East

The Washington Post: Israel’s Netanyahu Turns To Anti-Terrorism Tools In Battle Against Coronavirus <[link removed]>

“Israel plans to deploy electronic counterterrorism measures to track the movements of people who might be infected with the coronavirus, officials said, a confluence of crime fighting and public health that could become more common even as it sparked civil liberty concerns. Officials did not specify the techniques to be used but hinted they would include monitoring individuals’ cellphone locations, presumably without their consent, as well as the more sophisticated electronic intelligence and data analysis that Israel is known to have in its terror-fighting arsenal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced the initiative in a televised address Saturday night, acknowledged that applying Israel’s vaunted digital surveillance tools could infringe on privacy. He said it was an acceptable price for slowing the spread of the virus. “We are one of the few countries with this capability, and we will use it,” he said. “We must do everything, as a government and as citizens, to not become infected and not to infect others.” Israel, which has reported 200 cases of the virus and no deaths, has already proved willing to take sweeping measures to stave off a wider outbreak. Netanyahu announced that restaurants, bars and museums across the country would shut down indefinitely.”

Nigeria

The National: Militants Kill Six Soldiers In North Nigeria, Say Security Sources <[link removed]>

“Six Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorist gunmen in the restive north-east on Sunday, military sources said. The assailants opened fire on an army convoy near the village of Mayanti, near the border with Cameroon, in an area plagued by insurgent attacks. “We have lost six soldiers in an ambush by Boko Haram terrorists,” one officer said. The military convoy had been on its way to the nearby town of Banki when it was hit by heavy gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades, another source said. The decade-long extremist uprising has killed 36,000 people and displaced about two million from their homes in north-east Nigeria. The UN has complained of a surge in violence in the conflict zone in recent weeks. Anger has been growing among local residents about the army's failure to stop the attacks. The military has repeatedly claimed that the insurgency has largely been defeated but attacks against civilians and soldiers continue on a near-daily basis. The conflict has spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional coalition to fight the insurgents.”

Africa

The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts In Africa, Leaving Allies To Confront Growing Militant Threat <[link removed]>

“At the closing ceremony of U.S.-led military exercises in this expansive Saharan nation, American diplomat R. Clarke Cooper stepped to the podium and assured African military commanders that Washington stands ready to help them in their time of need. “The U.S. has an unwavering and longstanding commitment to Africa,” Mr. Cooper, the State Department’s assistant secretary for political-military affairs, said late last month. In fact, U.S. allies are increasingly worried that America’s commitment may be wavering when wide swaths of Africa face a surging threat from militants affiliated with al Qaeda and Islamic State. U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is conducting a world-wide review of troop commitments, in keeping with the Trump administration’s strategic tilt away from dispersed actions against terror groups and toward great-power competition with China and Russia. Africa is the first region on Mr. Esper’s list, and military officers and lawmakers expect him to order fresh troop reductions on the continent, on top of the 17% cut in personnel over the past two years. The Pentagon hasn’t said when he will announce his decision. The Pentagon has already sliced some 1,200 personnel from its rolls in Africa since deployments there hit a peak in 2018.”

Financial Times: Mali Violence Escalates As Peace Accords Crumble <[link removed]>

“The imam and the women, the elders and the youths, each spoke of violence and terror — all in a place where they had been promised there would be peace. In a dusty room on the edge of town, Gao’s civil society leaders vented. A women’s activist mourned the many sons, brothers and fathers who had died. A youth leader lamented the explosion of armed and jihadi groups in northern Mali five years after peace accords with separatist rebels were supposed to have brought stability. In recent weeks, several local leaders have been assassinated for co-operating with the UN and France, whose combined 20,000 troops are in the west African country to keep the peace and fight terrorists respectively. With the Malian government having little formal presence in Gao, “the form of the insecurity has changed: it used to be state symbols that were targeted, but now it’s the community leaders who are the victim”, a young man said, declining to give his name for fear of reprisal. A decades-long battle for independence by ethnically Tuareg separatists reached boiling point in 2012, when Tuareg rebels and jihadis captured northern Mali, a region twice the size of Germany.”

The Christian Post: 2 Christians Killed, 1 Abducted By Al-Shabaab In Kenya <[link removed]>

“In yet another assault on Christians in north-eastern Kenya, suspected militants from the Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab killed two people and abducted another in two separate attacks this week. The militants ambushed a passenger bus on the road between Elwak and Mandera near the Jabi-bar area Wednesday and asked all of the passengers to disembark before identifying non-Muslims, according to the U.S.-based persecution watchdog group International Christian Concern. The suspected member of Al-Shabaab then abducted a Christian. An hour later, two non-local medical transporters were killed and their truck was burned in the same location near the porous Kenya-Somalia border. The deceased were ferrying medicines. “The driver and turn boy who are both non-locals were taken away. It was later reported that the lorry has been burnt down to ashes,” Mandera’s Governor said in a statement. “Al-Shabaab is following through with its threat to target and attack non-local Christians,” Nathan Johnson, ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, said. “They have increased this type of attack greatly already this year. If this continues, 2020 could be one of the deadliest for Kenyan Christians in recent history.”

Australia

The Guardian: Man Charged After Allegedly Planning Rightwing Terrorism Attack On NSW South Coast <[link removed]>

“A New South Wales joint counter-terrorism team investigating extreme rightwing behaviour in the state has charged a man with a terrorism offence. The 21-year-old man from Sanctuary Point on the NSW south coast was on Saturday charged with one count of acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts after a joint counter-terrorism team investigation. The offence carries a maximum penalty of life in jail. The 21-year-old allegedly attempted and planned to buy or acquire military equipment including firearms and items capable of making improvised explosive devices. The Australian federal police assistant commissioner Scott Lee said in a statement on Monday that the decision to arrest the man was made to mitigate any immediate threat to the community. He added that the man was arrested to prevent further planning that “could have resulted in a terrorist attack” in Australia. Lee said the man was planning to disrupt an electrical substation on the south coast and looking to source material to construct an improvised explosive device. Police said the investigation began last month when detectives became aware of a number of online posts allegedly containing an extreme rightwing and anti-government ideology.”

The Guardian: Labor Says Australia Must Take Rightwing Extremist Threat ‘Seriously’ And Review Terror List <[link removed]>

“Australia’s Labor opposition has used the anniversary of the Christchurch massacre to call for a review of the criteria used to judge terrorist organisations, citing the fact no rightwing extremist groups are listed in Australia. The shadow home affairs minister, Kristina Keneally, has proposed the Morrison government allow the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security to review the criteria to ensure they are fit for purpose. The massacre of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 prompted calls for greater social cohesion in Australia and a renewed focus on extreme rightwing terrorism, particularly by the Labor party. In October Australia’s spy agency warned extreme rightwing terrorism had become “more cohesive and organised” – a warning repeated in February. The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, was soon after criticised for promoting a false equivalence between radical far-right groups and “leftwing terrorism”. The United States and Britain have listed extreme rightwing groups as terrorist organisations. Dutton has said he will do the same if the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation recommends it. Listing an organisation on the terrorism list criminalises membership or association with the group.”

New Zealand

The Times: Christchurch Shooting: What Terror Looks Like In The Social Media Age <[link removed]>

“A year ago today — March 15, 2019 — my heart is racing and I feel sick. I can still see the men and women collapsing one by one as they are hit by the rain of bullets, and I can hear those gunshots fired with the semi-automatic rifle. I should not have watched the livestream of the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand. “It’s the birth rates. It’s the birth rates. It’s the birth rates,” reads the beginning of the 28-year-old attacker’s so-called manifesto, “The Great Replacement”. I’ve seen his words a thousand times. From the identitarians in Europe to the alt-right in America, from the notorious online message boards of 8chan to the private chat rooms on Discord…”

Southeast Asia

Yahoo News: Islamist Militants Sentenced To Death For Bangladesh Priest Murder <[link removed]>

“Four Islamist extremists were sentenced to death in Bangladesh Sunday for the 2016 decapitation of a senior Hindu priest during a spate of attacks targeting religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the attack in the northern district of Panchagarh, but authorities blamed militants from Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). “The court... sentenced all four to death over the murder. They are JMB members,” Abdur Rafique, a court official in the capital Dhaka, told AFP. The priest was a prominent member of Bangladesh's Hindu community, which makes up nearly 10 percent of the South Asian country's population of 168 million. JMB was blamed for the murders of minorities, secular writers, publishers and foreigners between 2013 and 2016. Among them was a savage attack at a Dhaka cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners. Seven Islamist extremists were sentenced to death in November over the assault that was claimed by the IS. Bangladesh security forces launched a nationwide crackdown after the cafe siege, killing more than 100 members of the JMB including its top leaders, and arresting hundreds of suspected militants.”

Technology

Reuters: Twitter Tackling Online Polarisation <[link removed]>

“Twitter would partner the University of Otago's National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies to look at ways to counter "digitally amplified polarisation", the social media firm said in the past week. By looking at Twitter data before, during and after the attack, the research will study how conversations can be used to "promote tolerance and inclusion instead of division and exclusion", it said. Last year, Twitter and other tech firms like Facebook and YouTube joined a global initiative called Christchurch Call launched by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern that aimed to bring together governments and companies to eradicate extremist material shared online. Ms Ardern said on Friday that 48 countries, eight online service providers and three organisations have joined the initiative. She added that the online distribution of violent videos in recent attacks have been "far, far diminished" due to coordination between the group. The Christchurch attack was live-streamed on Facebook for 17 minutes, and copies of the footage were later shared on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram. Millions of copies of the footage were later taken down but many remain online, the Counter Extremism Project said yesterday. "Sadly, the Christchurch video remains a case study of how sites and platforms continue to be misused by extremists, especially when tech companies fail to take the steps necessary to prevent the hosting or broadcasting of extremist content," it said.”



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