Reynaldo Gonzalez's daughter, Nohemi, was among the 130 people killed by the attacks of terrorists in Paris last year. Now R. Gonzalez is suing Twitter, Facebook and Google for facilitating the spread of "extremist propaganda" as he claims the three social networks "knowingly" allow ISIS to recruit, fundraise and spread the word. his messages on each of the above platforms.
According to court documents:
"For years, [Twitter, Facebook and Google] have known and allowed the ISIS terrorist group to use their social networks as a tool to spread extremist propaganda, raise funds and attract new members.
"This support has contributed to the rise of ISIS, which has the potential to carry out many terrorist attacks, including the attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, in which more than 125 people were killed, including Nohemi Gonzalez."
Gonzalez claims that without Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, the extremists would not have the infrastructure to pass their message to the masses.
Lawsuits like these are particularly worrying, as every company it can go to extremes by policing its members and removing offending content.
Having a large group of moderators to oversee hundreds millions posts and generally new content every day is something big companies struggle to do.
The difficulty naturally lies in the volume of content, but also in the fact that no company can rely on the judgment of each mod as mod does not mean omniscient.
At the moment, companies use random manual control, pointing offensive content to improve the bots algorithm with artificial intelligence. But the scans of bots that often find inappropriate content again require human control.
Of course, as AI technology continues to improve, we will see fewer cases of extremist and other offensive publications.
For the time being, consider it as the entry value on an open Web.
