Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: the new global forum on the fight against terrorism aims to make social media platforms "hostile" to terrorists and violent extremists.
Facebook, Microsoft, the Twitter and YouTube will use the said forum to "share technological and operational data" of their individual efforts to combat terrorist content.
In December, at the EU's Internet Forum, the four technology companies announced the creation a common database of maps, videos and depictions of terrorist propaganda which have been removed from their services.
This forum will use the hashes of the database and include the best techniques that companies have implemented to detect the content as well as their classification techniques using the engineering learning.
The Global Internet Forum team will also work to develop standardized reporting methods for transparency to be used to remove terrorism content.
The new Forum follows its acceptance Google that the big techies need to do more to counter the use of social platforms to spread terrorist propaganda. The Facebook recently posted how to use with an image matching algorithm and through language analysis to identify and ensure that terrorist propaganda remains out of its platforms.
Efforts to fight terrorism are back on track as governments seek new regulations that will force technology companies to help law enforcement authorities address encrypted communications in criminal and national security investigations.
Through a joint partnership with the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Executive Board and the ICT4Peace initiative, large companies will be able to exchange knowledge with small companies to help them develop the technology and processes they need to address the terrorist and extremist content on the Internet.
The Forum will also develop best practices for countering extremism online and share knowledge from various counter-terrorism initiatives, such as Alphabet's Jigsaw Redirect method, and Creators for Change of YouTube.
“The Forum we have established allows us to learn from and contribute to each other's countervailing efforts and to discuss how we will strengthen and educate civil society and individuals who may be engaged in similar work but also to support ongoing efforts," the companies said in a joint statement.
They also published the Center for Strategic International Studies report , underlining the role of social media as an "accelerator" of violent extremism.
