ProgressOnline: Big tech and extremism: From dream to nightmare?
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."
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.