Collaborate Disseminate
Like ISIS, white nationalist extremist groups are feeling the pinch of internet shutdowns, but are organizing on encrypted channels and meeting up IRL. Continue reading After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL
An ISIS follower tried to radicalize hundreds of strangers worldwide, until one of his targets captured the messages and gave them to police. Continue reading ISIS recruiter caught by Facebook screenshot
And it won’t rule out forcing big companies like Google and Facebook to use it. Continue reading New AI technology used by UK government to fight extremist content
Following ads appearing next to hate-filled/extremist content, the bank says it’s not relying on Google to protect its brand. Continue reading JPMorgan doesn’t trust YouTube to keep its ads out of sketchy channels
Anyone with access to the internet can have their voice heard. And this is exactly the philosophy behind the extremist online radicalization and recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of… Continue reading Extremist Groups: Using the Internet to Foment Online Radicalization
…though at 2%, growth has slowed down from the double-digit jumps in number of data demands we’ve seen governments make in recent years. Continue reading Twitter says government requests for data still climbing
Third parties say that Islamic State traffic on Twitter has plummeted by 45% over the past 2 years. Continue reading Twitter takes down 235K extremist accounts
Internet companies are discussing, or already are, adopting the same technology used to spot copyright infringing content or child abuse imagery. Continue reading Are Google and Facebook to block extremist content with automatic hashing?