Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube today announced they would cooperate on a plan to help limit the spread of terrorist content online. The companies said that together they will create a shared industry database that will be used to identify this content, including what they describe as the “most extreme and egregious terrorist images and videos” that have been removed from their respective services.

Facebook describes how this database will work in an announcement in its newsroom. The content will be hashed using unique digital fingerprints, which is how its identification and removal can be handled more easily and efficiently by the company’s computer systems and algorithms.

Using a database of hashed images is the same way that organizations keep child pornography off their services. Essentially, a piece of content is given a unique identifier. If any copies of that file are analyzed, they will also produce this same hash value. Similar systems are also used to identify copyright-protected files.

However, where this new project differs is that the terrorist images and videos will not be automatically removed when content is found to match something in the database. Instead, the individual companies will determine how and when content is removed based on their own policies, and how they choose to define terrorist content.

That could quell claims of censorship, but, on the flip side, if the companies aren’t quick to respond, it could mean the images and videos have a chance to circulate and be viewed before they’re pulled down.

Facebook also notes that personal information will not be shared, though it didn’t say that this information is not collected. The government can still go through legal means to find out from which accounts the content originated, and other info as before. The companies will continue to make their own determinations about how they handle those government requests and when those requests are disclosed.

The new database will be continually updated as the companies uncover new terrorist images or videos which can then be hashed and added to this shared resource.
While the effort is beginning with the top social networks, the larger goal is to make this database available to other companies in the future, Facebook says.

“We hope this collaboration will lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online,” states the post.

Given the recent discussions about the spread of fake news on social media, one hopes this new collaboration could potentially pave a path for the companies working together on other initiatives going forward.

The problem of false news also damages all of social media, and has raised questions about what role should the companies play in battling that content. There are some who would claim that these companies have no business being arbitrators of the news or what’s right and wrong — and companies themselves would be glad to be “dumb” platforms, as well, in order to escape their responsibility in the matter.

However, because of their outsized influence on today’s web, these companies are beginning to wake up to the fact that they will be held accountable for the content shared on their platforms, given that content has the ability to influence everything from terrorist acts to how people perceive the world and even politics on a global scale.

http://www.firmtech1.com/2016/12/yes-facebook-microsoft-twitter-and.html?m=0

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Vetsolo:
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chaiii see as my FTC pass me by

Too little too late.

School Group Photo...........
Headmaster to Photographer: N20 is too much.
There are 2000 students, Charge Only N10 its sufficient!!
Headmaster To Teachers "Please tell all the Kids to Bring N30 each - for their Group Photo tomorrow.
Teacher In Class to Kids: "Listen, all of you must Get N50 from home tomorrow for the photoshoot!!
.
Kids Discuss : These teachers are taking us for a ride, each photo is only N20. With the balance, they will order snacks & samosas & all have a Party and we get nothing!! There is No Honesty Nowadays!!
At home-
.

The Naughty Kid : Mom, The Teachers have asked Us to Get N100 each for the Group Class Photo!! .. . .
Mom : N100??!!
This is Robbery !! Haba! Just Wait, I'll have To get . from Dad
Mom To Dad : Are You Listening? These school People have Gone Mad. They want N200 from each kid for the Group Photo! Ridicoulous!!
NOW where Will this Corruption End??
*And What Can Poor Buhari do?

Good idea...

how them boko go con dey pass info to the FG now

This is long overdue, Let's all stand up against this barbaric beasts

Nice One.....we are getting there Globally

Someone said "not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims

Does it include IPOB and boko?

Wonderful. Stringent measures should also be taken to ensure better privacy for users

Nice Idea! May not curb all, but will definitely curb some.

Good brains.... Thumbs up!!

I think say na better thing sef. let me come and be going abeg

abeg,leave bokoharam video oo

That's a smart move! Remove all TERRORIST shiit from the Internet!
http://www.nosrweb.com

UNAPAPA101:
School Group Photo...........
Headmaster to Photographer: N20 is too much.
There are 2000 students, Charge Only N10 its sufficient!!
Headmaster To Teachers "Please tell all the Kids to Bring N30 each - for their Group Photo tomorrow.
Teacher In Class to Kids: "Listen, all of you must Get N50 from home tomorrow for the photoshoot!!
.
Kids Discuss : These teachers are taking us for a ride, each photo is only N20. With the balance, they will order snacks & samosas & all have a Party and we get nothing!! There is No Honesty Nowadays!!
At home-
.

The Naughty Kid : Mom, The Teachers have asked Us to Get N100 each for the Group Class Photo!! .. . .
Mom : N100??!!
This is Robbery !! Haba! Just Wait, I'll have To get . from Dad
Mom To Dad : Are You Listening? These school People have Gone Mad. They want N200 from each kid for the Group Photo! Ridicoulous!!
NOW where Will this Corruption End??
*And What Can Poor Buhari do?

Hahaha...You must have had a troubled childhood?

petrelli07:
Does it include IPOB and boko?

How this news relates to Ipob is what I dont understand

Youtube shouldn't mess with those videos ooo.

Great news. It's like taking their voices. It will stop them from spreading threats and fear.

If they do how then do Mr shakeau contact us, and isis

New Sherrif in Town, all shady deals and dealers are quickly covering their tracks

petrelli07:
Does it include IPOB and boko?

It is offensive to group IPOB and Boko Haram together.
Only criminals would do that.

IPOB is a secessionist group, above all, unarmed.

Boko Haram is a terrorist group that emerged after leaders of 12 northern Nigeria states adopted Islamic sharia criminal codes in their northern territory.

Boko Haram struggles to have a country, possibly Nigeria, to be governed through Islamic sharia criminal codes.

Nigeria's constiution does not recognise Islamic sharia criminal codes in any part of Nigeria.

IPOB 's Biafra people can't be comfortable in a country where Sharia criminal codes are used.

The combination of unfriendly environment of sharia criminal codes and Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria provoked mass exodus of IPOB 's Biafra people from the northern region of Nigeria.

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UNAPAPA101:
School Group Photo...........
Headmaster to Photographer: N20 is too much.
There are 2000 students, Charge Only N10 its sufficient!!
Headmaster To Teachers "Please tell all the Kids to Bring N30 each - for their Group Photo tomorrow.
Teacher In Class to Kids: "Listen, all of you must Get N50 from home tomorrow for the photoshoot!!
.
Kids Discuss : These teachers are taking us for a ride, each photo is only N20. With the balance, they will order snacks & samosas & all have a Party and we get nothing!! There is No Honesty Nowadays!!
At home-
.

The Naughty Kid : Mom, The Teachers have asked Us to Get N100 each for the Group Class Photo!! .. . .
Mom : N100??!!
This is Robbery !! Haba! Just Wait, I'll have To get . from Dad
Mom To Dad : Are You Listening? These school People have Gone Mad. They want N200 from each kid for the Group Photo! Ridicoulous!!
NOW where Will this Corruption End??
*And What Can Poor Buhari do?

my brother leave all these analysis. The best way to fight corruption is to make the the economy conducive for individual, corporate and comercial growth. Tell Buhari that nigeria dont need much from him. All we ask from him is to provide a thriving economy for us were there will continous growth of companies that can employ millions of people who are unemployed. An employed and underemployed man is more prone to social vices.

UNAPAPA101:
School Group Photo...........
Headmaster to Photographer: N20 is too much.
There are 2000 students, Charge Only N10 its sufficient!!
Headmaster To Teachers "Please tell all the Kids to Bring N30 each - for their Group Photo tomorrow.
Teacher In Class to Kids: "Listen, all of you must Get N50 from home tomorrow for the photoshoot!!
.
Kids Discuss : These teachers are taking us for a ride, each photo is only N20. With the balance, they will order snacks & samosas & all have a Party and we get nothing!! There is No Honesty Nowadays!!
At home-
.

The Naughty Kid : Mom, The Teachers have asked Us to Get N100 each for the Group Class Photo!! .. . .
Mom : N100??!!
This is Robbery !! Haba! Just Wait, I'll have To get . from Dad
Mom To Dad : Are You Listening? These school People have Gone Mad. They want N200 from each kid for the Group Photo! Ridicoulous!!
NOW where Will this Corruption End??
*And What Can Poor Buhari do?

Resign from being headmaster!

Na dem sabi

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lestat:

Hahaha...You must have had a troubled childhood?

lol

Igbos and yeye avengers, right now..