Tech and Terrorism
No, Tech Companies Should Not Give The Taliban A Platform Online
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, major tech companies are allegedly facing a dilemma about how to moderate the terror group’s online presence. At issue is whether to recognize a transfer of power to the group in the war-torn country...
Radical Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary Attempts To Return Online After U.K. Lifts Speech Ban
With Anjem Choudary’s public speaking ban lifted by the United Kingdom, the radical British cleric has made multiple attempts to re-establish his online presence on multiple major social media platforms. Already, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and...
Google Sues Germany Over Hate Speech Law
This week, Google filed a lawsuit in administrative court in Germany to challenge a portion of the country’s expanded 2018 Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG). NetzDG regulates online content moderation and requires online platforms to remove...
Facebook’s “Redirect Initiative” Puts Onus On Users To Identify Extremism
In early July, Facebook began testing a pilot program on its platform asking some users if they had been “exposed to harmful extremist content” or “concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist.” Called the “Redirect Initiative,” the pop...
New Study Confirms YouTube Algorithm Promotes Misinformation, Conspiracies, Extremism
YouTube’s recommended videos algorithm suggests extremist content, misinformation, and conspiracy theories to its users, according to a new report by the Mozilla Foundation. The results were based on a crowdsourced research project that enabled...
Half Measures to Remove Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels Do Not Work
A neo-Nazi e-book released on Telegram on June 16 shows how the communications app continues to fail to remove white supremacist channels that support violence. The e-book was made by an online neo-Nazi collective that encourages acts of terrorism...
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
In Their Own Words:
The current stage demands that we exhaust the enemy until it whines and moans due to economic and military bleeding. It is in this context that the operations outside the theatre in which the enemy expects us to strike, operations on enemy soil and beyond enemy lines becomes evident.
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