A federal grand jury indicted the suspect behind last summer’s deadly vehicle incident in Charlottesville, Virginia, on federal hate crime charges Wednesday.
James Alex Fields, Jr., who was arrested in Charlottesville last August, was indicted on 30 counts, including a hate crime resulting in death and bodily injury, and racially motivated violent interference with “federally protected activity.”
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In June 2017, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft announced the formation of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). The aim of this industry-led initiative is to disrupt the terrorist exploitation of its services. Recently, GIFCT members hailed the achievements of its first year of operations. But, while this progress must be acknowledged, significant challenges remain.
Every single minute there are on average 510,000 comments and 136,000 photos shared on Facebook, 350,000 tweets posted on Twitter and 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube.
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French butchers have called on the government to protect them against violent attacks from vegan “terrorism.”
In an open letter to home minister Gerard Collomb, the Confederation Française de la Boucherie, Boucherie-Charcuterie, Traiteurs (CFBCT) — a union representing artisan butchers — denounced recent attacks against members of their profession.
"For the past few months, the 18,000 artisan butchers in our country are worried about the consequences of the increased media exposure of the vegan lifestyle,” CFBCT president, Jean-François Guihard, wrote in the letter published on Facebook.
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A teenager suspected of planning to kill people at a high school graduation last week received an additional charge of terrorism on Tuesday.
Matthew Vanderbeek, 19, of Cream Ridge, is a student at New Egypt High School in Ocean County and had plans of buying a gun with the intention of killing students at the school's graduation Thursday night, authorities said.
He was arrested June 19 and charged with terroristic threats with a threat to kill, a third-degree crime, and second-degree attempting to possess a firearm for an unlawful purpose.
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The head of the U.K. police’s counter-terrorism strategy called for stricter laws to tackle charismatic speakers preaching extreme ideologies, blaming them for grooming terrorists.
“To say radicalization is the biggest scourge of our time is an understatement,” Neil Basu told lawmakers Tuesday during an evidence session on the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Bill, which is currently passing Parliament.
Basu spoke of the “immense” difficulty in prosecuting Anjem Choudary, a radical Islamist preacher who avoided jail for more than 10 years. Choudary, who called for Sharia law to be implemented across the U.K. and described the 9/11 terrorists as “magnificent martyrs,” eventually served time for inviting support of Islamic State and is expected to be released this year.
Read more: Bloomberg
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