* Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress Wednesday that they've gone beyond screening and removing extremist content from their services and are creating more anti-terror propaganda.
* Executives from the three largest social media companies shared their latest methods of fighting extremism during testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee.
Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress Wednesday that they've gone beyond screening and removing extremist content and are creating more anti-terror propaganda to pre-empt violent messages at the source.
Representatives from the three companies told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that they are, among other things, targeting people likely to be swayed by extremist messages and pushing content aimed at countering that message. Several senators criticized their past efforts as not going far enough.
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WNU Editor: I am skeptical that Facebook, Google And Twitter are great at counter-propaganda, but if they can delete extremist content quickly and within the public parameters on what extremism is .... I will be satisfied with that.
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5 comments:
What do they consider extremist???
People who don't think like them??
Don't know....just asking ??
That might be the scary part!
agree Anon.
that is what I meant by the need for these companies to state publicly what they are talking about (i.e. what is extremist content).
It's kind of scary, what happens to people that don't follow the lock-step narrative???
I think one of the greatest things that Trump did - by accident or design - is change the narrative of the left. Just a year ago, whatever the left said was followed. If you said something against immigrants you were a racist. If you said something about murderers,you were a racist. If you expressed a different opinion, you were a bigot. You still are, and you will still get fired if you are pro Trump and happen to work in Silicon Valley, but I do think these left-leaning companies get more sensible now. It just cannot go on that you have snowflakes, and social justice warriors run the country. I am left-leaning myself, believe it or not, but this overreach by the left to condemn everyone and tell them they live in a bubble, without realizing that it's sometimes them who are in the bubble, has gone far enough. So it's actually really healthy for the US to have a guy like Trump in the office who reminds the US what they used to be - a country in which you could express your opinion without being fired, harassed, intimidated. It used to be the right that did many of these harassments, now it is the left, I'm ashamed to say. But I think my side is waking up and maybe in a few years time the democrats will have a trutful platform again - not such liars as Donna Brazile, Clinton, Wassermann-Schulz etc.. (all women, all lied, all got caught.. also tells you something about the great future of women haha)
It'll get even scarier when deep learning based AI gets trained to do that job and then there'll be bias that will for a few decades be extremely difficult to prove and fix
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