PRI Science Friday: How we can use 'digital fingerprints' to keep terrorist messaging from spreading online
“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.’”
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.