Social Media Giants Create Database to Silence ‘Terrorist Propaganda'
(ANTIWAR) According to a new statement
by Facebook, they have joined with YouTube, Microsoft, and Twitter to
create a shared database of “terrorist content” which they can all
jointly use to identify further attempts to post such banned content.
The database will create hashes of videos and images that they’ve
already decided are related to terrorism, and then will allow them to
single out any further content matching those hatches. Facebook says
this will allow them to more quickly remove such content.
The move is an attempt
to react to US government demands to “do something” against terrorist
propaganda, with the companies apparently hoping that the voluntary
crackdown will be enough to stave off any formal government efforts to
regulate them.
It’s unclear exactly what the scope of this program is going to end
up being, and how broadly defined “terrorist propaganda” will be.
Company offiicals are downplaying concerns of censorship, however, insisting that they have to act quickly to take such content down so no one sees it.
