EU Reporter: Verifying #BigTech promises
We are exhausted by spectacular failures to protect user’s privacy, allowing advertisers to illegally target housing and job ads based on race and age, promoting fake news designed to incite violence and disrupt elections, and allowing terror-groups to continue to radicalize and recruit online. We are exhausted by the apologies and the promises to do better. Policymakers and advertisers have been increasingly vocal in their frustration of social media companies’ lack of aggressively addressing everything from radicalizing, terror-related material to sexually explicit content targeted at children. In response, YouTube just last week announced that they had removed over 8 million videos in the previous three months, the majority of which were spam or adult content. On the surface, these numbers sound promising, but a closer look paints a different picture. Over a seven-week period between March 8 and April 26 of this year, we used our own technology to identify the presence on YouTube’s platform of just 256 previously identified ISIS-generated terror-related videos. Here is what we learned: No less than 942 ISIS videos were uploaded to YouTube. These 942 videos garnered a total of 134,644 views.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.