Wednesday, 22. June 2016
Topic: War and Peace News - on June 22, 2016 at 6:14:00 PM CEST
There’s a new tool to take down terrorism images online. But social-media companies are wary of it.
President Obama suggested that extremist information spread online inspired a Florida man to commit the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at a gay nightclub in Orlando last week — the latest in a long line of terrorist attacks in which Islamist propaganda played some role in radicalizing the assailant. Now a Dartmouth College researcher and a nonprofit group say they have created a technology that can help Internet companies instantly detect images and videos generated by terrorists and their supporters and remove them from their platforms.
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