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December 6, 2016 02:28 am GMT

Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to stop terrorist content

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Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google are teaming up on a new effort to prevent the spread of terrorist content on their networks. 

The companies are creating a shared database that will allow them to track the "digital fingerprints" of accounts that share terrorist images and videos across their respective networks to make it easier to identify and remove the content.

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Under the new partnership, when Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Microsoft removes a photo or video that promotes terrorism, it will add a hash — what the companies describe as a "digital fingerprint" that makes that particular piece of content identifiable — to a shared database. This will make it easier for all the companies involved to spot the same content on their own sites and remove it. Read more...

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