"Terrorist propaganda" refers to information or messages created by terrorists with the intent to promote or support violence, fear, and harm to others. It is usually spread through various mediums like videos, social media, or online platforms, aiming to influence and recruit individuals to join their cause or carry out acts of terror.
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After pressure from governments to recognize its immense power over the spread
of terrorist propaganda, Facebook started about a year ago to take more direct responsibility.
«Whilst there is still no evidence of further threats, you'll understand our determination is to find out if either he acted totally alone, inspired perhaps
by terrorist propaganda, or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.
Right now, we're starting to explore ways to use AI to tell the difference between news stories about terrorism and
actual terrorist propaganda so we can quickly remove anyone trying to use our services to recruit for a terrorist organization.
Use our interactive Akayed Ullah, a 27 - year - old Bangladeshi immigrant, said he
consumed terrorist propaganda and learned how to make the explosive device through online
Facebook believes its policing system is better at scrubbing graphic violence, gratuitous nudity and
terrorist propaganda from its social network than it is at removing racist,...
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With the surge of illegal content online, including
online terrorist propaganda and xenophobic and racist speech inciting violence and hatred, online platforms carry an increasing societal responsibility in terms of protecting users and society at large and preventing criminals from exploiting the online space.
While some content is clearly inadmissible according to Facebook's rules,
like terrorist propaganda or child pornography (which is increasingly sought out by artificial intelligence), decisions about hate speech can't be made without looking at the post's context.
«While several platforms have been removing more illegal content than ever before — showing that self - regulation can work — we still need to react faster
against terrorist propaganda and other illegal content which is a serious threat to our citizens» security, safety and fundamental rights,» said Andrus Ansip, vice president for the digital single market in a statement, per Mercury News.
A series of steps taken to
remove terrorist propaganda more quickly, and tamp down on the spread of fake news, have produced some encouraging results.
Facebook can shut down the dissemination
of terrorist propaganda and child pornography, and how it decides to control speech can also affect elections, suppress political opposition, or amplify authoritarian governments.
Five men who became «intoxicated»
by terrorist propaganda have had their convictions quashed after the Court of Appeal ruled there was not enough evidence to prove they meant to act on the extremist material in their possession.
Zuckerberg testified that Facebook is working on building AI tools to detect — and possibly to automatically remove — problematic content, ranging from bots to
terrorist propaganda and hate speech.
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While the company seems to be very proficient at removing nudity and
terrorist propaganda, it's lagging behind...
Comparing a videogame to
some terrorist propaganda is just ridiculous.
The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «
terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence
However the executive body appears to be seeking to bundle up various types of «illegal» content into the same problem bucket — and quickly drew criticism it risks encouraging algorithmic censorship by seeking to create one set of rules to apply to copyrighted content and
terrorist propaganda, for example.
For its latest reporting period, ending December 2017, Twitter says 93 % of the accounts were flagged by its internal tech tools — with 74 % of those also suspended before their first tweet, i.e. before they'd been able to spread
any terrorist propaganda.
Authorities had blocked access to some channels on encrypted messaging service Telegram last year, saying it had several forums that were «full of radical and
terrorist propaganda».