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Nami LaChance writes at The Intercept that a google-incubated program that targets potential ISIS members with deradicalizing content will soon be used to target violent right-wing extremists in North America. Using research and targeted advertising, the initiative by London-based startup Moonshot CVE and Google's Jigsaw technology incubator targets potentially violent Jihadis and directs them to a YouTube channel with videos that refute ISIS propaganda. In the pilot program countering ISIS, the so-called Redirect Method collected the metadata of 320,000 individuals over the course of eight weeks, using 1,700 keywords, and served them advertisements that led them to the videos.
"I think this is an extremely promising method," says Richard Stengel, U.S. Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs. In the ISIS pilot program, the YouTube channel pulls preexisting videos that, according to Yasmin Green, the head of research and development for Jigsaw, "refute ISIS's messaging." One video is from a woman who secretly filmed her life in ISIS-controlled Raqqa. Another shows young people in Mosul, their faces obscured by keffiyehs for their protection, talking about life under the Islamic State. "The branding philosophy for the entire pilot project was not to appear judgmental or be moralistic, but really to pique interest of individuals who have questions, questions that are being raised and answered by the Islamic State."
Ross Frenett, co-founder of Moonshot, says his company and Jigsaw are now working with funding from private groups to target other violent extremists, including the hard right in America. "Our efforts during phase two, when we're going to focus on the violent far right in America, will be very much focused on the small element of those that are violent. The interesting thing about how they behave is they're a little bit more brazen online these days than ISIS fan boys," says Frenett.
(Score: 5, Informative) by bob_super on Friday September 09 2016, @08:33AM
On the EU scale, Hillary is a right-wing politician, so are the libertarians, Trump is extreme-right-secular, most the rest of the GOP is extreme-right-religious.
Bernie is the only one on the left.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @08:39AM
*ahem* Dr. Jill Stein *cough cough*
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @08:54AM
This is so true as to be blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain. Unfortunately, many alleged "rightist" in America cannot see the obvious, and do not realize that they are exactly what their fathers or grandfathers fought in WWII. Yes, if you are right in America today, you are a fascist. Not hard to spot. Everyone knows. The right wing party, as several have pointed out, is the Democrats: status quo, capitalism du jour, Goldwater girl candidate. Makes perfect sense. But if you oppose Hillary: now let me put this plainly: I am not saying you should support the Royal H-ness, god forbid. But I am saying that if you oppose her because you are more conservative than she? Hoo Boy, we got us some Nazi KKK jmorrises on our hands! You have already gone beyond the pale! You are off the charts of American politics! We don't know you anymore. Do you work for Breitbark, or some other Russian propaganda operation?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by julian on Friday September 09 2016, @05:40PM
Unfortunately, many alleged "rightist" in America cannot see the obvious, and do not realize that they are exactly what their fathers or grandfathers fought in WWII. Yes, if you are right in America today, you are a fascist.
That really says it all. Democrats are conservatives today. Republicans are fascists, dominionists, white nativists, or some combination of those. It's no longer a legitimately articulated political philosophy. People who want to replace the government with a dictatorship, bring about the end of human civilization on Earth for religious reasons, or disenfranchise and relocate entire ethnic groups don't get a seat at the table. To them I say, you lose, good day, sir! Enjoy this Google de-programming advert.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Username on Friday September 09 2016, @07:32PM
and do not realize that they are exactly what their fathers or grandfathers fought in WWII.
You mean the Japs? The ones of said ancestry who the leftist rounded up and put into concentration camps? Well color me yellow.
if you are right in America today, you are a fascist.
Yes, those anti-socialists want smaller government, more individual freedoms, and worry about Obama taking a third term. Obviously those conservatives are fascist even thought they go against the very definition.
(Score: 5, Informative) by snufu on Friday September 09 2016, @11:22AM
In Scandinavia, Bernie Sanders would be "establishment" center, or considering his stance on gun ownership even right of center.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @09:57PM
The 'on the EU' scale ignores pretty much all of the US and European history. How they ended up there and why. Especially the influence that Marxism had upon it.
It also ignores how Russia and the US neutered the wars going on there. As both are now starting to unwind themselves out of the EU you are starting to see the strains of how the system was propped up to basically avert WW3.
The national socialist workers party did not 'go away' at the end of WW2. It just lost the more controversial bits of wide spread war and extermination of enemy's.
So yes the US is considered right of the EU. Because the EU has not been there since the mid 1800s.
Bernie is the only one on the left.
Most did not even realize what he was. The race for president rarely has anything to do with policies. It has to do with looks and popularity. He was a fad. Remember at one point Vanilla Ice was popular.
The US on the other hand did not really have a Marxist revolution in the same sense. They had a civil war about personal rights. The democrat side believing the states (not the fed) should have the right to say what happens. The republican side saying people should not be owned and people are the masters of their own destiny. Most people to this day do not even realize both sides were fighting each other over two different ideals. What rights do the state control and what rights do people control is an argument that happens to this day. So yielding rights to the state 'for the common good' flies against everything most Americans believe in (the north won and got to write the rules).
Totalitarianism can happen under both types of gov socialistic and capitalistic. Recent history has show that socialism seems to create it faster. As they create conditions in which a small group of 'chosen' can influence things.