Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have teamed up to share their expertise spotting terrorism-related content, in order to crimp its spread. The four put their name to a joint statement in which they declare “There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services.” The definition they’re working with is “violent terrorist imagery or terrorist recruitment videos or images that we have removed from our services.” All four companies have committed to “the creation of a shared industry database of ‘hashes’ … of the most extreme and egregious terrorist images and videos we have removed from our services — content most likely to violate all of our respective companies’ content policies.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
