"Between 200 and 400 online platforms are currently hosting content that could lead to terrorist radicalisation, the European Commission has said. Dr Hany Farid, a senior adviser for Counter Extremism Project (CEP), recently told EURACTIV that most platforms were unwilling to assume their civic responsibilities, which could soon backfire for them. Farid is a world-leading authority on computer forensics and developer of a hashing software capable of identifying and quickly removing violent images, video, and audio content online, the eGLYPH technology. 'We are at where we are today because of the sheer unwillingness of the platforms to cooperate with wider social concerns,' he said. 'The scale of extremist content online is phenomenal.' Farid said he would not be surprised if the platforms’ failure to counter the spread of terrorist content started to hit their revenues. 'Advertisers are going to start to turn away,' he said. 'They won’t want to be associated with businesses that allow the dissemination of such offensive material.'”