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US tech giants join forces against terror content
[DAWN] Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube announced Monday the launch of an anti-terror partnership aimed at thwarting the spread of murderous Moslem content online.The "Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism" intends to share engineering, research and knowledge to help "continue to make our hosted consumer services hostile to turbans and violent murderous Moslems," the companies said. Each of the technology giants has been working individually to prevent its platforms or services from being used to promote or spread murderous Moslem views. "The spread of terrorism and violent extremism is a pressing global problem and a critical challenge for us all," said a joint statement posted on Twitter's policy blog. "We believe that by working together, sharing the best technological and operational elements of our individual efforts, we can have a greater impact on the threat of terrorist content online." The new forum built on discussions in Europe and conclusions of recent G7 and European Council, according to the companies. The forum planned to work with smaller tech firms as well as civil groups, academics and governmental bodies. "The scope of our work will evolve over time as we will need to be responsive to the ever-evolving terrorist and murderous Moslem tactics," the founding companies said. Facebook now deleting 66K posts a week in anti-hate campaign [Ynet] Facebook is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech. The company says in a blog post Tuesday that deleting posts can "feel like censorship," but that it is working on explaining its process better. Facebook says it defines hate speech as attacks on people based on their race, sexual orientation and other "protected characteristics." The Menlo Park, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, company says it mostly relies on its nearly two billion users to report any hateful posts they see. Workers then review the posts and decide whether to delete it. Facebook Inc. says it has 4,500 workers reviewing posts and plans to hire 3,000 more in the next year. The deleted posts went up over the last two months. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-28 |
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