Content Moderation

January 11, 2023 CEP Staff

Google Makes Vague Promises To Develop Content Moderation Software For Smaller Platforms

Google’s Jigsaw announced that it is developing a free software tool to help smaller websites improve their content moderation capabilities. The purported new tool comes as tech companies will be forced to remove terrorist content from their sites or...

April 13, 2022 CEP Staff

Twitter Fails To Consistently Remove Houthi And IRGC Accounts

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has consistently called for clear guidelines from tech companies to target and remove the “worst of the worst” terrorist and extremist material on their platforms. One clause within Twitter’s terms of service...

March 01, 2022 CEP Staff

Taliban Minister Brags About Historic Number Of Suicide Attacks On Twitter

Last week, Taliban Acting Minister for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Sheikh Muhammad Khalid Hanafi bragged about his group’s “historic” number of suicide attacks in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. Pro-Taliban accounts on...

October 22, 2021 CEP Staff

Facebook Fails To Provide Full, Transparent Information On Content Moderation To Oversight Board

On Thursday, Facebook’s Oversight Board released its first transparency report, where it criticized Facebook for failing to be “fully forthcoming” about its controversial XCheck program, which exempts high-profile users like politicians and...