Google is using Jigsaw to track terrorism in the dusty corners of the internet

Date:
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:56:54 +0000

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While terrorist groups no longer have a large presence on mainstream social media, they have sunk into the shadows of small online communities - now Google wants to help remove them.

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Google has released a new free tool to help track and tackle terrorism on small community built platforms.

Known as Altitude , the tool is built by Googles dedicated Jigsaw unit, which is tasked with tracking extremist content and misinformation on the internet.

Tech Against Terrorism, a UN-backed online counter-terrorism group, is
working alongside Jigsaw to develop the anti-terrorism tool. Small platforms swarmed by extremist content

Small online communities often struggle to combat the distribution and
sharing of extremist content due to a lack of dedicated regulation and resources.

That is why Google has released Altitude as a free service for small communities to use, as they often dont have pockets deep enough to pay for dedicated anti-terrorism tools.

Content that has been created by extremist groups is identified through the use of image hashes, which it collates into the online database. These
digital fingerprints then help identify extremist content on small platforms.

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism - a group formed in 2017 by industry leading names such as YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) - is also assisting with the project by providing its existing wealth of knowledge surrounding online terrorist content.

Speaking to Wired , the CEO of Jigsaw Yasmin Green, said, Islamic State and other terrorist groups didnt give up on the Internet just because they no longer had the megaphone of their social media platforms. They went
elsewhere. They found this opportunity to host content on file-hosting sites or other websites, small and medium platforms.

Those platforms were not welcoming terrorist content, but they were still hosting it - and actually, quite a lot of it.

Altitude can be integrated straight into the backend of any website, and then can be used to check if content has been designated as extremist or created
by terrorist groups. The content is verified by Tech Against Terrorisms Terrorist Content Analytics Platform, which hosts the database containing designated terrorist content. More from TechRadar Pro Watch out - these are the personal finance apps most likely to steal away your personal data This fake Windows news site is spreading malware via hacked Google ads This new ChatGPT-powered infostealer is targeting cloud platforms




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