Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
CEP Advisory Board Member Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "Like the investment banks, today’s big tech is focused on profit at the expense of its responsibility to society. Our research at the Counter Extremism Project has uncovered how tech companies fail to enforce their terms of use, which forbid their platforms being used to promote terrorism or incite violence. For example, we developed a web-crawler to search YouTube for known extremist content. Using a set of 229 previously-identified ISIS videos to compare against, and our e-GLYPH hashing technology, we found videos in that set had been uploaded 1,348 times, and were viewed 163,391 times. But what is needed are not so much new restrictions on content, but the impartial and transparent application of existing law and the companies’ own terms of service. They already claim that their platforms ban terrorism, incitement, and violent extremism. What is required is for some of the richest companies in the world to start enforcing their own standards."
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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