Google tightens measures to remove extremist content on YouTube
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Alphabet Inc’s Google will implement more
measures to identify and remove terrorist or violent extremist content
on its video sharing platform YouTube, the company said in a blog post
on Sunday.
Google said it would take a
tougher position on videos containing supremacist or inflammatory
religious content by issuing a warning and not monetizing or
recommending them for user endorsements, even if they do not clearly
violate its policies.
The company will also employ more
engineering resources and increase its use of technology to help
identify extremist videos, in addition to training new content
classifiers to quickly identify and remove such content.
“While
we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content that
violates our policies, the uncomfortable truth is that we, as an
industry, must acknowledge that more needs to be done. Now,” said
Google’s general counsel Kent Walker. http://bit.ly/2rLgYEd Google will
expand its collaboration with counter-extremist groups to identify
content that may be used to radicalize and recruit extremists, it said.
The
company will also reach potential Islamic State recruits through
targeted online advertising and redirect them towards anti-terrorist
videos in a bid to change their minds about joining.
Germany,
France and Britain, countries where civilians have been killed and
wounded in bombings and shootings by Islamist militants in recent years,
have pressed Facebook and other providers of social media such as
Google and Twitter to do more to remove militant content and hate
speech.
Facebook on Thursday offered
additional insight on its efforts to remove terrorism content, a
response to political pressure in Europe to militant groups using the
social network for propaganda and recruiting.
Facebook
has ramped up use of artificial intelligence such as image matching and
language understanding to identify and remove content quickly, the
company said in a blog post.
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