Financial Times: Social media: Challenging the jihadi narrative

Body

Western governments have criticised social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for being slow to stop the spread of terrorist material. But few critics have as much technical expertise as Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College in the US. Mr Farid developed an algorithm to detect child pornography, work that is being adapted to curb the proliferation of terrorist videos. Prof Farid is planning to launch a new technology alongside the Counter Extremism Project, a US non-profit organisation, to help online platforms identify extremist content and take it down in an instant.

Date
October 17, 2016
Article Source
Show On
Digital Disruption
Terms of service

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
View Archive