SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Google will step up efforts to censor terrorism-related content on YouTube and its other services. The company says it will take four steps to address violent extremism online:
We will now devote more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new "content classifiers" to help us more quickly identify and remove extremist and terrorism-related content.
[...] [We] will greatly increase the number of independent experts in YouTube's Trusted Flagger programme. Machines can help identify problematic videos, but human experts still play a role in nuanced decisions about the line between violent propaganda and religious or newsworthy speech. While many user flags can be inaccurate, Trusted Flagger reports are accurate over 90 per cent of the time and help us scale our efforts and identify emerging areas of concern. We will expand this programme by adding 50 expert NGOs to the 63 organisations who are already part of the programme, and we will support them with operational grants.
[...] [We] will be taking a tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate our policies — for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content. In future these will appear behind an interstitial warning and they will not be monetised, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements.
[...] Finally, YouTube will expand its role in counter-radicalisation efforts. Building on our successful Creators for Change programme promoting YouTube voices against hate and radicalisation, we are working with Jigsaw to implement the "Redirect Method" more broadly across Europe. This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining. In previous deployments of this system, potential recruits have clicked through on the ads at an unusually high rate, and watched over half a million minutes of video content that debunks terrorist recruiting messages.
Human video flaggers are paid to skim and evaluate hours worth of content in mere minutes (seconds?). But paying NGOs to watch YouTube all day could improve the situation. I would like to remind any potential terrorists reading this summary to "bomb violence with mercy".
Reported at Bloomberg and NYT.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @11:17AM (5 children)
Saudi Arabia while your at it those are the two biggest states sponsors of terrorist groups and have created the most terror for their own citizens in the world so that would be a start
wait no they are helping those people
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @01:49PM
exactly. this just illustrates the whole point of google from the beginning. power and control. make them sorry!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:34PM (2 children)
Add to the list, the Muslim Brotherhood that create proxy organizations that in turn instigate terror. They use Qatar as their own private bank.
They are like the mother alien laying eggs that in turn eats humans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:46PM (1 child)
Sure all US surrogates, where is central command again?, may as well yell about al Quida since why not defect from the fact that these are all US surrogates, it may not have been GWB jr that blew up the WTC but GB sr certainly created the people that did it
also is there an update going on the CSS is messed
(Score: 1) by JNCF on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:31PM
Click the menu button in your mobile browser and select "Request desktop site." I'm assuming they added some media queries for small screens that hide the left bar and the padding/margins that offset nested comments, but that's just based on what I saw rendered before switching back to the desktop view; I know nothing.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 21 2017, @04:44PM
No, but Donald Trump did just sell them a crap ton of new weapons. I'm sure that'll help!