Fighting extremist content online: Feds dedicate $1.9M to terrorist analytic tool
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"We need to confront the rise of hate and violent extremism," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet on Tuesday as he announced the $1.9 million in funding.
The federal government is giving new funding to continue the development of an automated tool for finding and flagging terrorist content online.
In a press released issued Tuesday evening, the public safety department detailed a $1.9-million, three-year investment in funding “to combat online terrorist and violent extremist content.”
“We need to confront the rise of hate and violent extremism,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet on Tuesday.
“At the Christchurch Call Summit, I announced that Canada will fund a new tool that helps small and medium-size online platforms better identify and counter content related to terrorism and violent extremism.”
The tool Trudeau referred to is the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform.
Created by the United Nations’ Tech Against Terrorism initiative in 2020, the tool combs various corners of the internet for terrorist content and flags it for tech companies around the world to review — and, if they choose to do so, remove.
The creation of this tool is funded by Public Safety Canada through the Community Resilience Fund. However, despite their funds supporting it, the government is at arms-length from the work TCAP does, according to the website for the tool.
Typically, terrorists share their content on “smaller platforms” first, according to Adam Hadley, who is the executive director of Tech Against Terrorism.
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