Financial Times: Social media groups join forces to counter online terror content

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Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter on Monday announced they had joined forces in an attempt to curb explicit terrorist imagery online. The move follows criticism from Brussels that big US social media groups have made insufficient effort to clamp down on hate speech. The Counter Extremism Project, a US non-profit organisation, recently launched technology to identify terrorist content, based on techniques used to locate and take down child pornography.

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December 5, 2016
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We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

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