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11:45, 05-Dec-2017
Tech consortium flags 40,000 videos, images as extremist content
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Over 40,000 videos or images have been put on a database of extremist content by a consortium of tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) was created in June under pressure from governments in Europe and the United States after a spate of deadly attacks.
The forum has recently added Ask.fm, Cloudinary, Instagram, Justpaste.it, LinkedIn, Oath and Snapchat parent company, Snap.
GIFCT Photo
GIFCT Photo
The group shares technical solutions for removing terrorist content, commissions research to inform their counter-speech efforts and works more with counter-terrorism experts.
The database helps companies in identifying and removing matching content that violates their respective policies, or even block extremist content before it is posted.
The forum now has 68 companies as members, exceeding its initial goal of 50 companies for 2017, the consortium said in a joint statement.
Source(s): Reuters