The platforms' counter-terrorism initiative will focus on threats from the far right

Until now, the shared database between the big tech companies consisted of contents from extremist Islamic organizations such as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban

(photo: Unsplash) The shared action between the big tech platforms to fight Online terrorist content expands and will also target material produced by white supremacists and right-wing extremists.

So far, the database of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (Gifct) - an independent organization created in 2017 - it focused on videos and images of terrorist groups on a UN list and thus was largely made up of content from extremist Islamic organizations such as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. There have been a few exceptions for specific far-right incidents such as the Christchurch, New Zealand shooting of 2019.

In the coming months, the group will add posters of the attackers - often shared by sympathizers after the violence of the supremacists whites - and other publications and links reported by the United Nations Tech Against Terrorism initiative. It will use the Five Eyes information sharing group listings, adding URLs, logos and PDFs from multiple groups, including the Proud Boys - who were designated as a terrorist entity by Canada in May - the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

Platforms that can access the database, such as Reddit, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Microsoft's Dropbox, will use the database to make moderation decisions based on their own policies.

However, the expansion of the initiative will be limited and will not include all the contents of groups such as the Boogaloo movement or QAnon because they are “loosely organized” in the words of Gifct programming director Erin Saltman.

Technology platforms have long been criticized for failing to control violent extremist content. The pressure intensified after the assault on the Capitol on January 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump. But platforms must even if they also face concerns about censorship.

In an interview with Reuters Nicholas Rasmussen, the executive director of Gifct, expressed distrust of excessive moderation, stating that “the excess of results in this leads you in the direction of violating someone's rights on the internet ”.


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