Category: terrorism

Australian bill could imprison social network execs over violent content

Post author By Randall
Post date March 30, 2019
Categories In Australia, christchurch, extremism, gear, Internet, law, mass shooting, Politics, social network, social networking, Tech, terrorism
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[ad_1] Platform hosts would also have to notify Australia if they discover their service is streaming violent content taking place within the country. If they don’t, they could face fines up to $168,000 AUD for an individual and $840,000 AUD for a company. The new legislation would ultimately be similar to those requiring companies to […]

A New Zealand shooting video hit YouTube every second this weekend

Post author By Randall
Post date March 18, 2019
Categories In content moderators, gear, Google, hate speech, Internet, mass shooting, new zealand, Security, Tech, terrorism, tomorrow, Videos, Youtube
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[ad_1] The speed at which the videos were uploaded forced YouTube to take unprecedented measures. Under standard protocol, YouTube’s software flags troublesome content, which human moderators then review. But because the system was inundated, it let the AI software both flag and remove content it suspected to be problematic. As Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product […]

Facebook pulled over 1.5 million videos of New Zealand shooting

Post author By Randall
Post date March 17, 2019
Categories In Facebook, gear, hate, hate speech, hatespeech, Internet, mass shooting, massshooting, new zealand, newzealand, shooting, Tech, terrorism, terrorist
No Comments on Facebook pulled over 1.5 million videos of New Zealand shooting

[ad_1] The shooter wore a head-mounted camera to livestream the attack, and in his social posts and manifesto suggested that he wanted to stoke tensions that supported his anti-immigrant agenda. There’s been a concern that spreading the video is giving the attacker the exposure he wanted in addition to traumatizing viewers. While the removal rate […]

Facebook and YouTube rush to remove New Zealand shooting footage

Post author By Randall
Post date March 15, 2019
Categories In Facebook, gear, Internet, mass shooting, new zealand, Tech, terrorism, terrorist, Youtube
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[ad_1] Facebook has confirmed that local law enforcement “alerted it to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced.” It said it had removed the unverified video along with the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. “We’re also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re […]