Extremism and terrorism. Analysts are expected to talk about the changing Threat Landscape, the best way to combat extremism in all forms. This is live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so good afternoon, everyone. We will get started. Thank you so much for coming to new america and thanks to come in for a session which is ctrlaltdel hate, a simple study approach to preventing terrorism and targeted violence. My name is melissa salykvirk and im a senior policy analyst here with new Americas International security program. For those of you new to america we are a thinking action tank that connects the research institute, technology labs, solutions that were, media have an public forum. The International Security program aims to provide evidencebased analysis of some of the toughest security challenges facing american policymakers and the public. For homegrown american terrorism United States drone wars abroad and a drones around the world. To the profound changes in warfare brought by new technology and societal changes. I like you first begin by introducing jesse morton, parallel networks cup will begin with a presentation on the new initiative before jumping into the panel portion. Jesse was whats a jihadist propagandist they known as who ran revolution muslim, nukes Database Organization active ann the 2000s and connected to a number of terrorist and cases. He connected alqaeda is ideology and transcendent for america creating englishlanguage propaganda. He do about 2011 following his arrest in casablanca event incarceration in the u. S. He is now executive director of parallel networks. And after his presentation, i will have the rest of us because joyce and i will provide an introduction for each of them. We will discuss pillar new initiative the changing Threat Landscape future of terrorism practices and the relationship between our white wing and jihadism. Well say the last 30 minutes or so for audience q a and with that i will handed over to jesse. So, good afternoon and thank you for attending todays event. We are certainly honored to be here. Id like to express a special gratitude to do america for hosting todays event, a Sinful Society approach to preventing terrorism targeted violence. Todays event import for us as it marks the release of our new counter polarization hate and Extremism Initiative called ctrlaltdel hate. Conjointly kate is a magazine that will be issued in print and online we would passing ransom copies. It is a couple of an ecosystem approach to combating extremism that weve been building out since we got started. You can see the cover of the First Addition which went online this morning but the initiative is more than emir counter narrative tool. It is part of our innovative and holistic approach to addressing this threat posed by enhancing and mutually reinforcing extremism is here in the u. S. First, a little bit on the projects back to its important to realize its not a standalone initiative. Ctrlaltdel hate is more than just a magazine. Moreover, you know mitch and i with assistance of many supporters and in particular the counter extremism project and their team of researchers have been working on advancing apprehensive program that can assist in combating the threat posed particularly now by far right wing extremism. In fact, my partnership with mitch was announced publicly on june 4, 2019 with an event here at new america and documented the nefarious legacy i built and that mitch combated by these with the nypd. As director of intelligence. Since then weve learned a great deal. After researching, networking, speaking of publishing reports and designing programs, we launched the online ecosystem will discuss here today more detail, and in which ctrlaltdel hate will now be incorporated. This project ctrlaltdel hate came about as a result of much in person effort. Since our inception we been putting together a network victims, activist, researchers, supporters and others that believe and are moderate. Think about ctrlaltdel hate started a year ago during the week of activity that made it. We needed to get moving then fast. The activity could the tree of life synagogue attacks which occurred in the midst of the obama scare and individual supremacist who try to get into a barricaded African American church and proceeded to shoot two two elderly African Americans at the supermarket in kentucky. Of course things have gotten a lot worse since then, and, but we start at the time to select a team of formers and victims of rightwing extremism that construed alongside us that was preexisted of former jihadists to help us expand into the rightwing space going forward. At the core of our network like jeff scoop of it the large neonazi university in america for decades, frank make home the American American history x was based, by seven others like brad was also you today, and people like hope, an africanamerican woman whose father was murdered by White Supremacists and she actually is in contact with the individual that murdered him and provides sort of support and empathy. These have been her interventionists over the past year, and at the same time we supported and inform one another. Ctrlaltdel hate is a byproduct of its yearlong efforts. Its the beginning of our answer, particularly in the rightwing space. So id like to talk about our unique approach to this problem. We believe formers offer an unrivaled insight and particularly when teams with an amazing collective of others from different fields and spectrum of activity. Our efforts are largely from trans display model we call the pillow network philosophy. Its one that takes it ecosystem, approach that what has typically been the standalone help lines with no outrage and little publicity in marketing or failed candidate of campaigns that cannot reach their targeted audience at her sensual ineffective because theyre not connected to a Broader Network or move it. We need instead of creating an alternative network, or movement, you might describe as one that first seeks to rival inside in scope and cohesive worldview the network that tice extremists together. Only then we believe can you map that networks impact and measured the result of intervention oriented engagement. So ctrlaltdel hate will serve as the cornerstone of these efforts. A bit more on the history and how this was established. The ctrlaltdel hate methodology was used to disseminate it will be based upon a Pilot Initiative was launched in june 2019, six months ago. When i was a jihadist recruiter and propagandist on behalf of alqaeda from 20032011, i collaborate with several premier jihadist write it and he is to develop the very first englishlanguage jihadist magazine. I designed about the lead article for the first issue which we called jihad recollections and after my nukes citybased musician threat to write before preparing the prophet muhammad, alqaeda launch their own iteration called inspire. That eventually came isis own. Over the years these magazines weaponized propaganda ways unseen before him. Mitch and i came up with the idea of taking that template back i once initiated and using it for positive purposes. We designed the calendar to product but at did jihadist in graphic design, and kind and structure, called it the socalled khilafah. Included articles that deconstruct the jihadist ideology am included the test will formers like myself and offer a positive alternate worldview that we call our dialogue of civilizations bottle equally applicable as we addressed whats perceived threats on the far right for the f no state that they categorize as western civilization. One month before the launch of ahultaqwa we inaugurated online. It took and will embedded there some of it relaunch the first issue of ahultaqwa on the First Anniversary of the caliphate and before the launch even got the characters and community and jihadist sympathizers to me that isis was about to launch a new englishlanguage magazine. That coupled with an rollout that generate publicity forced extremist recruiters to respond as we invaded their aqua chamber strip it is essentially the only calendar to product has been utilized over encryptor platforms like telegram where extremists including the recently the far right are migrating as result of efforts by mainstream social Media Company such as facebook, twitter and youtube to remove extremist content. When we first launched ahultaqwa the jihadist recruits and preachers were angry. We kept popping up in the close discussion groups because with multiple holes in the network. A method mitch knows all too well, the reports of. That led them to engage me in private discourse when we were screenshot of the reputations we provide. We then pump evidence of the entrance of the leadership and ability to respond to our arguments back into the Jihadist Network spanning them with evidence against those they hold asleep. At the same time the magazine connects to interventions. Not a standalone counter narrative product. For example, after reading ahul taqwa and coming over to threaten me on twitter, i establish good relations in supporting a prominent individual that cause quite a bit of fanfare when he returned back to the west having joint isis in syria by two innings for a absent criminal charge. Several interventions have arisen as a result of ahul taqwa embeddedness in the pro isis englishlanguage telegram network. Now each article each addition of a ahul taqwa serves as a standalone piece on website and its utilize for linking to engagement sharing social media and putting into extremist conversation threads online. We also use ahul taqwa for prevention. In 2020 will be pretty hard copies of both ahul taqwa and ctrlaltdel hate and visiting cities around the United States speaking publicly with our core teams to raise awareness and promote our Intervention Services. Natalie launched ctrlaltdel hate we can use say method for domestic extremist collectives will also discussing reciprocal radicalization. So like ahul taqwa, ctrlaltdel hate magazine becomes not a standalone candidate of product built on the if you build it they will come hypothesis, or something to use insignificant in scope and application to have an impact. Next i will elaborate a bit on the holistic nature of the project and how it fits into our ecosystem. First, ctrlaltdel hate is more than just the name of the magazine. Its something that we utilize as a clear paradigm in conducting personal and collective transformation. Based on keystrokes and playing off the popularized altright bremen, ctrlaltdel hate offers a unique framework for storytelling and transformation. The first stage control is to pause and process when confronted with extremist behavior ideology. As a holocaust survivor, Victor Franco once data between statements and response, theres a space. In that space is our power to choose our response, and in our response lies our growth and our freedom. Our approach is dedicated to imparting this realization. Ctrlaltdel hate goes to recognize that we need to look that just at the response to extremism and how we react to it which create alternate courses that address often what a legitimate grievances by nonviolent mechanism. The alt turns to delete it, the phase that also ruggedized in such a tumultuous time only a holistic society, approach the issues. Collectives can get you in the message of the magazine has an underlying methodology that can transition into a paradigm and process for individual and collective alteration. Shift hate is an example of our ecosystem. This is oneonone engagement has occurred which the authors in a First Edition of the magazine and other support staff have facility. Shift hate stands for support and help for individuals and families touched by hate. Under that umbrella we won a 24 7 helpline and aggressively and that access to it the our unrivaled access to online extremist networks. Without any marketing or broadbased support from government or social Media Companies weve already conducted nearly 100 interventions. Many with key hubs of extremist movements. For example, jeff and a young female former far rightwing propagandists are here with us today and offer a sort of case study of those that are have benefited from the parallel networks philosophy. We contacted those and offer them support as well. We have used shift to provide some of the only support services to terrorism related offenders returning to our streets after their incarceration and we utilize the case studies to conduct research and recommendations on how to address their concerns in the paper released last year when terrorists come home again with the support of counter extremism project. So the final component of the ecosystem is safety. Society against violent fixed es of any. If ctrlaltdel hate offers a different approach than safe say is our assetbased approach that seeks to build up that network i was referencing that can transform essentially into a movement. Extremist dont offer a message. That offer a comment worldview in counterculture, a community built on axioms and in particular they develop aqua jams were opposition is drowned out. Extremist recruiters think multidimensional and remain fluid. They are able to adjust almost instantaneously. Its an effort to match and reverseengineer the extremist method our team knows all too personally. It utilizes influences and the color shape shifters and concentrates on formality that payola number, that network built on principle of hate that come together synergistically and offer a complete worldview an alternative to the extremist ecochamber. Though the palin Network Ecosystem methodology, you can see on this slide the different components. First, serves as a core hub of our ecosystem regenerates safe space free of hate, host overactivity. Each entity control alt delete hate shift hate and safe hate is hosted there. Taken together the system permits extremism energies to be transition in a manner that creates opportunities for individuals and groups to experience the same meaning and evidence and sense of belonging extremist offer. Second is a research. They understand today that evidence based initiatives with measurable outcomes must precede implementation period we learn by doing and then measure outcomes. Extremism is fluid. The lack assist with top ten social sites often means the limitation of data driven interventions that are no longer appropriate in a climate that is always shifted. We first got the growth of parallel network, then measure engagement effectively only once the network coalesces and can be juxtaposed and measured against the contraction or expansion of the extremist networks we seek to alter. Partnerships, the third, consultancy is key. Theres too much competition and not enough collaboration in the pde cvb space. Victims of extremism and shape shifters for example, all do the own thing independently but the engagement with activity within the light of upon light ecosysm allows the individual efforts to magnify. It becomes less of the individual, more about the movement. Think of the charismatic preachers operate and extremist brand but still can become individual icons, representatives that embody the mission of the respected causes and organizations. Ctrlaltdel hate magazine will help us build out an alternative and positive messaging. That messaging will be to broader marketing in raising Public Awareness about the ctrlaltdel hate Intervention Services and will expand partnerships that influencers and continues to provide a key of networking to expand the movement. All of these components the off of and into each other. From a social Service Perspective they are designed to approach the issue of violent extremism as the Public Health phenomenon. To demarcate each component of the brand so it can fulfill engagement at levels of prevention, education, harm reduction, intervention, counter messaging, Restorative Justice and rehabilitation, the whole social science or social service spectrum. Finally then, going forward, now we have to advance and expand the parallel networks. Weve only been up and running just publicly like upon light ecosystem for six months. Well expanded within each of the ecosystems essential components. We will be building more research, we only have heavily embedded and oncotic with networks such as at the fodder, proud boys where ctrlaltdel hate will be disseminated. Weve already contacted several of hubs of those committees to do so. Our Grassroots Efforts have established sufficient sizes. We were released a report on the project and pursue other initiatives as well. We will be looking to form more partnerships between the networking with the peace Building Community and albert have put together an Impressive Team that will organize the center for the study of trauma in her radicalization that we have collaborated with ideas beyond borders to translate the ahul taqwa magazine into arabic and to expand influence into the most majority rule. We will be taken back isis newsletter utilizing the same approach as ahul taqwa in arabic. We looking to expand into australia, canada, and western europe as well. Will engage social Media Companies and request their support promoting the ship and hoping users looking for extremes content are provided access, the pathways to the light upon light message of hope. Light upon light itself will increase its coverage of extremist related activity. We see a communication of an online portal that can help Grassroots Research in journalism that convinced podcasts, online videos and other media back and arm public with information that confront polarization with coverage and commentary that enhances resilience and offers a worldview that creates a collective nonpolarizing consciousness. Aspers interventions, weve been advocating for a government to focus