internet forum: This incident highlights the importance of industry cooperation regarding the range of terrorists and violent extremists operating online, said the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism GIFCT which includes Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc, according to The Japan Times. The gunman who attacked the two mosques in New Zealand live-streamed the attacks on Facebook for 17 minutes using an app designed for extreme sports enthusiasts. While it was not the first internet broadcast of a violent crime, the livestream of the massacre showed that stopping gory footage from spreading online persists as a major challenge for technology companies despite years of investment. ; Last Friday, social media users intent on sharing the mosque shooting video were said to have used several methods to create new versions with digital fingerprints that differed from that of the original, so as to evade companies' detection systems. Copies were still being shared on social media hours later. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she wants to discuss live streaming with Facebook, and some of the country's firms are considering whether to pull advertising from social media. Late on Saturday, Facebook, the world's largest social media network with around 2.3 billion monthly users around the world, said it had removed 1.5 million videos within 24 hours after the Christchurch attack.
(news.financializer.com). As
reported in the news.
Tagged under internet forum, technology companies topics.