Uh, Oh. looks like life is about to become more difficult for the..................deplorables. 
Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Source: Reuters
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos -- often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence -- and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
There go plans for the next Charlottesville march or the next assaults on the Capitol.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-...021-07-26/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142775225
2. It's about time.
This group was formed in 2017, and until now, this was apparently de rigueur when it came to who were considered "terrorists -
as some convoluted pretzel-twisting would commence to claim that groups like the many militias, et. al., "had no political/anti-government agenda".
Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Source: Reuters
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos -- often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence -- and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
There go plans for the next Charlottesville march or the next assaults on the Capitol.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-...021-07-26/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142775225
2. It's about time.
This group was formed in 2017, and until now, this was apparently de rigueur when it came to who were considered "terrorists -
as some convoluted pretzel-twisting would commence to claim that groups like the many militias, et. al., "had no political/anti-government agenda".
