Microsoft and social network giants team up to track ‘terrorist’ content

‘Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have joined forces to fight the spread of terrorist propaganda online. Together they say they will create a “digital fingerprints” database of terror-linked content that also respects privacy and freedom of speech.
“Our companies will begin sharing hashes of the most extreme and egregious terrorist images and videos we have removed from our services – content most likely to violate all of our respective companies’ content policies,” the tech giants’ statement reads.
The database the four giants are going to launch is similar to a technology that Google has been using to scan for pictures involving child abuse.’
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