“In collaboration with the Counter Extremism Project, Farid has expanded the technology to include video and audio, which he says are major sources of extremist messaging. But the tool is encountering a hitch: Tech companies have been slow to sign on, Farid says. ‘I feel like the issues with the counter-extremism [space] are playing out in a very similar path as the child pornography space. There is an initial, ‘We can't do this, the technology doesn't exist.’ We develop the technology, it’s like, ‘Oh, but there are legal issues, there are speech issues.’”