Google reveals new plans to combat online extremist content
New York (dpa) – Google pledged to crack down on extremist content online Sunday as the internet giant unveiled a new four-pronged approach. The search engine will follow in the footsteps of online giant Facebook by deploying artificial intelligence to more quickly detect and review extremist content. For its YouTube platform, this will mean ramping […]
Russia Creates Surveillance Task Force To Monitor Social Media
The Russian National Guard has created a cyber intelligence task force to monitor social media with the goal of weeding out “extremist content,” the Moscow Times reported Thursday. The task force is part of Russia’s anti-terrorism efforts that were intensified last year, when the Kremlin reported it saw a 86 percent rise in online extremism […]