Social media is the most popular form of communication. Even terrorists find a way of using it. In a bid to stop terrorist content, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft have teamed up to create a shared database that will allow them to track ‘digital fingerprints’ of accounts that share terrorist content.
The new partnership enables the companies to add a dash (that is digital fingerprint) on removed content making that particular piece of content identifiable—to a mutually shared database. Thus, making it easy to spot the same content across all media sites.
Our companies will begin sharing 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. Participating businesses can add hashes of terrorist images or videos that are identified on one of our platforms to the database. Other participating companies can then use those hashes to identify such content on their services, review their respective policies and definitions, and remove matching content as appropriate.
The hatching system will identify extreme terrorists’ contents and remove it. By so doing, the content will be added to the lists of the other participating companies. If content is identified in one platform, best believe that through the database, it will be picked up and removed from the other platforms. Matching content will be removed as appropriate according to the site’s policies.
In a group statement released by the companies, it is evident that social media platform has decided to take a stand against free sharing of terrorist content.
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