Shedding Light on Terrorist and Extremist Content Removal
Isabelle W. J. van der Vegt, Paul Gill, Stuart Macdonald, Bennett Kleinberg · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2019
Social media and tech companies face the challenge of identifying and removing terrorist and extremist content from their platforms. This paper presents the findings of a series of interviews with Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) partner companies and law enforcement Internet Referral Units (IRUs). It offers a unique view on current practices and challenges regarding content removal, focusing particularly on human-based and automated approaches and the integration of the two.