Inside the tech giants antiterror strategy...... Facebook, under pressure to crack down on Islamic State militants using its network, has quietly ramped up its efforts to block terrorist messages and videos in what some experts say is a potentially significant move by the Silicon Valley giant in the U.S. governments battle against the terror groups propaganda and recruitment efforts. As described by Bickert, Facebook has set up what amounts to its own counterterrorism squad, with at least five offices around the world and scores of specialists fluent in several dozen languages. The group, part of Facebooks Community Operations team, responds around the clock to reports by Facebook users and others of terrorists using the social media network, taking terror-related material down and then looking for related accounts that the same actors might be using. Facebook which now has 1.5 billion users, 70 percent of them outside the United States and Canada is not only looking for messages or posts from avowed members of the Islamic State or other terror groups, Bickert says. It has instituted community standards policies controversial in some circles that go beyond those of other social media firms, banning expressions of support for terrorist groups and expressions praising their leaders or condoning violent terrorist acts. One provision, sponsored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would require social media firms to report to U.S. law enforcement all terrorist activity on their networks. The provision was inserted into a Senate intelligence bill last summer and then removed after intense lobbying by a host of trade associations representing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media and tech companies, including Yahoo, congressional staff members told Yahoo News.....snip~ https://www.yahoo.com/politics/facebook-vs-isis-inside-the-1352650033922102.html Looks like the pressure is getting to social media. What do you think about this? As Facebook isn't just looking at Daesh. But Hate messages too.
It has instituted community standards policies — controversial in some circles — that go beyond those of other social media firms, banning expressions of “support” for terrorist groups and expressions “praising” their leaders or “condoning” violent terrorist acts.....snip~ What did you think about the banning of expressions of support?
