Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
Instead of coming up with new clickable content and stories to discredit terrorist propaganda, why not make the radicals' toxic material much harder to find on the internet? Better yet, why not just remove it altogether from the web? Dr. Hany Farid is one of the leading voices today urging online platforms to treat terrorist propaganda like child pornography and work to uproot the material altogether from the internet. He helped to develop an algorithm that automates the process for identifying harmful videos online, even copies. This makes it much easier to comb the internet for toxic content so that it can be removed. Recently Farid and the Counter Extremism Project won an important victory. As the New York Times reported this month, YouTube, which is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, began removing the videos of the late al Qaeda theologian Anwar al-Awlaki from its platform.
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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