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Tech giants collaborate to counter terrorism

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, to help the technology companies continue to make their services hostile to terrorists and violent extremists. Having been under government pressure recently for the way terrorist groups have used social media sites for recruitment and for spreading hateful and violent messages, the collaboration has announced that it will focus on technological solutions, research and partnerships with governments and civic groups. The initial work will refine and improve existing joint technical work and define standard transparency reporting methods for terrorist content removals. The groups will also commission research to inform counter speech efforts and guide future technical and policy decisions around the removal of terrorist content, as well as establishing a broad knowledge-sharing network through the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UN CTED).

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