Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (subsidiary of Google/Alphabet) have announced on Monday a partnership globally, aiming to identify more quickly the “the content to a terrorist” on their platforms, and thus slow down their spread.
The four american companies agreed to create a common database that includes the “fingerprints” digital photos or videos of propaganda and recruitment removed from their platforms, according to a common message relayed on their respective sites.
“By sharing information with each other, we may use (these digital fingerprints) to help identify content that is potentially a terrorist on our platforms public respective”, they argue. No message, however, will be removed or blocked automatically : it will be up to each enterprise to assess if the identified content violate its own rules.
Each will also decide independently of the images and videos that she decided to add to the common base. They specify want to start with images and videos, “the most extreme and egregious” removed from their platforms, and therefore “the most likely to violate the rules of all our companies”. Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube say they also want to examine “how to engage additional companies in the future”, but insist on the fact that each of them will continue to be treated as independent requests for information or removal of content by governments or law enforcement.
anti-propaganda jihadist
The initiative comes as the United States, the european Commission and a number of other governments have stepped up calls in recent months that the social networks are intensifying their fight against the propaganda of jihadist online.
After these calls, Twitter indicated, in particular, have been suspended since mid-2015 more than 360 000 accounts promoting terrorism, and it was observed a decrease of the use of its platform by jihadists, according to Sinead McSweeney, vice-president in charge of public policies of the social network in the region Europe/Middle East/Africa.
In a comment emailed to AFP, it stated that a large part of the account suspensions made by Twitter had been detected by technical means such as tools, anti-spam, but that the sharing of digital fingerprints with the common database would “manually” and “periodic”. the “there is not a single approach suitable to all to tackle this type of material; each platform is different”, she pointed out.
most social networks prohibit in their rules of use, the content, calling for violence or making the apology of terrorism. Even if they have improved their tools for automatic detection, the actors in the sector to reaffirm regularly does not have algorithm (“magic”) to identify content issues and rely a lot on reports by their users of content issue.
The online distribution of content such as “terrorist” is “a pressing problem that requires attention of technology companies”, and therefore justifies a joint initiative announced Monday, has risen to one of the participating companies. However, she stressed the fact that this did not represent a “new standard” to tackle all types of content at issue in line (violence, pornography, etc).
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