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...
Google and Apple are facing renewed scrutiny from European officials for their failure to remove—and ban in entirety—the Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored app, Euro Fatwa. The intensifying pressure comes after months of repeated government warnings that...
New Policy Reduces Transparency On Ad Placements Appearing Alongside Hateful Content This week, the Wall Street Journal reported on efforts by Google-owned YouTube to restrict the platform’s “brand safety partners” from being able to share critical...
Google, Facebook & Twitter Spend Total of Nearly $8 Million Lobbying on These Issues Despite Ongoing Terrorist Attacks During the first quarter of 2019, Big Tech spent approximately $8 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies on potential...
In a June 18 blog post, Google discussed its plans to tackle terrorist videos on its platforms—in particular YouTube. Google—which has a market cap of more than $600 billion—pledged to scale up its technological and human capacity to identify content...
During the summer of 2017, YouTube launched several initiatives relating to terrorist content on its platform, including the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)––a partnership with other tech companies aimed at combating extremist...
On Monday, April 23, 2018––a day before G7 security ministers pressed tech companies to do more to combat the spread of extremism online––Facebook and YouTube both released updates on their progress in removing extremist content from their platforms...
Google has touted its Redirect Method Pilot Program, which aims to steer individuals searching for ISIS-related content on YouTube toward counter-narrative materials, as an effective way to combat its platform’s problem with online radicalization...
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)––a partnership of tech companies led by Facebook, Google, and Twitter––has been praised for its alleged progress in combating extremism online. Most recently, in remarks at a counterterrorism...
One of ISIS’s most notorious bomb-making videos is frequently and continually uploaded to Google web platforms, and there is little indication that the company is taking the appropriate steps to prevent these reuploads. “You Must Fight Them O...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 16, 2020, while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” 18-year-old Abdoulakh Anzorov decapitated history teacher Samuel Paty in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Paty had recently received death threats after showing caricatures of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in class as part of a lesson on freedom of speech.
Nigeria’s military confirmed this week that ISWAP leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi was killed. However, the military did… https://t.co/AIdbLHhRV4
The EU insists on a false distinction. But there is no military arm vs. political arm. There is only #Hezbollah. Fo… https://t.co/HwnR7Wc5CI
RT @metpoliceuk: The murder of Sir David Amess in #Essex earlier today has now been declared as a terrorist incident, and the Met's Counter…
The announcement comes about a month after Nigerian armed forces announced that 5,980 Boko Haram fighters surrender… https://t.co/xl9OfNuvLP
Abu Musab al-Barnawi was the U.S.-designated, ISIS-appointed leader of Boko Haram. Nigeria's military released a st… https://t.co/nwuS3bQeQf
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