In the fight against foreign and domestic terrorism, there's nothing more powerful than shared information. It's a lesson we learned after 9/11. https://t.co/zFyMmZL9nB

— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) July 26, 2021

Since J6 we have noticed a marked increase in white nationalist oriented Facebook groups. Both public and private.

Cracking down on manifestos does nothinghttps://t.co/XZ3wqbMh5w

— We Will Be Ruthless (@RuthlessWe) July 26, 2021

“Part of this is about taking hashing as a concept, which is traditionally just focused on images and videos, and realizing that when we look at how the threat is manifesting, we need to go beyond just our lens of image and video.” - @ErinSaltman, GIFCT’s Dir. of Programming https://t.co/aRgpBl7Qff

— Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) (@GIFCT_official) July 26, 2021

Today, we announce the initial three ways we'll expand the taxonomy for our hash-sharing database to combat more terrorist content online and share independent research that guides this work: https://t.co/txxcjHTeac #GIFCTglobalsummit21 https://t.co/1f8VIHTTg5

— Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) (@GIFCT_official) July 26, 2021

NEW: Big tech’s anti-terrorism group spent the last 5 months trying to expand their database of banned terrorist content.

I had a fascinating convo with @ErinSaltman about that work and the incremental changes the @GIFCT_official is announcing today https://t.co/ISSxbGkSsQ

— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) July 26, 2021

If you’re interested in the delicate balance between over censorship and checking rising extremism, there’s a lot in here for you.

Saltman also helped build Facebook’s dangerous individuals and groups team. https://t.co/CjOenp2HWO

— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) July 26, 2021

Kicking off the @GIFCT_official Annual Summit today including announcements around expansion of the Hash Sharing Database; expanding scope of terrorist & violent extremist hashed content. https://t.co/eQMXZAzy50

— Erin Saltman, PhD (@ErinSaltman) July 26, 2021

Useful read! Two points: 1. Would highlight the UN’s decades-long struggle to define terrorism. 2. Look at the EUs TCO reg, where EU explicitly abandoned its own designation list & deferred to Member govts. Underlines @ErinSaltman’s point that these are not just tech problems. https://t.co/2dXYBjzZM1

— Brian Fishman (@brianfishman) July 26, 2021

Soon after the Jan. 6 riot, the tech industry's leading anti-terrorism alliance decided to expand its definition of terrorism. Today it released a 177-page report on the matter, and, well, a radical rethinking of online extremism it is not. https://t.co/kzRNioZNKm

— Protocol (@protocol) July 26, 2021

This is a big shift for the platform giants after years of focusing GIFCT's efforts almost exclusively on overseas Islamist groups like ISIS and al Qaeda https://t.co/2zcKOJPFvr

— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) July 26, 2021

NEW: @GIFCT_official's hash-sharing database that Facebook, Twitter + others use to track terrorist content is expanding to include attacker manifestos, branded terrorist publications & URLs for far-right militia groups like Proud Boys, Three Percenters https://t.co/Szm47UwqmH

— Elizabeth Culliford (@eculliford) July 26, 2021

Im so proud of everyone at @GIFCT_official
This year's Annual Summit is a labour of love and is bringing together great partners. make sure you register for all three sessions to catch some of my wonderful colleague discuss their work. https://t.co/vIRgtXqAZ5

— Dina Hussein دينا (@DinaHussein) July 26, 2021

Great to see all the progress made over the past year by @GIFCT_official. Their work is helping to bring greater collaboration between industry and govt as we work together to combat terrorist and violent extremist activity. https://t.co/LVGUf3t5zj

— Nick Clegg (@nickclegg) July 26, 2021

STARTING SOON ? #GIFCTglobalsummit21

Leading experts & practitioners will soon join us to discuss @GIFCT_official's progress and pressing issues at the nexus of terrorism and violent extremism, tech, human rights, and public policy: https://t.co/4uHxnayHCj

— Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) (@GIFCT_official) July 26, 2021

Glad to see ⁦@GIFCT_official⁩ moving toward the domestic extremism scene “Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database” | Reuters https://t.co/MZ83d3vd7k

— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) July 26, 2021

The far-right is going to regret making themselves a priority for a national security establishment that used to see them as mostly harmless cranks.

“Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database” https://t.co/J2ffHEkLgT

— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) July 26, 2021

Since J6 we have noticed a marked increase in white nationalist oriented Facebook groups. Both public and private.

Cracking down on manifestos does nothinghttps://t.co/XZ3wqbMh5w

— We Will Be Ruthless (@RuthlessWe) July 26, 2021

Good news: a counterterrorism organization formed to get Islamist terrorist propaganda off the Internet is expanding its remit to right-wing violent extremist material: manifestos, terror manuals, etc.

Later today, I hope to do a real thread on this.https://t.co/MnNpqF9aWj

— The Q Origins Project (@QOrigins) July 26, 2021

Don't worry, @Facebook won't add your Uncle Ralph to a watchlist of Domestic Violent Extremists just because he posted a pic of a Panzer tank three years ago.?https://t.co/UouPWO8ocL pic.twitter.com/keePSa9xs6

— Danny Hellman (@dannyhellman) July 26, 2021

‘Facebook and tech giants to target manifestos, militias in database’ https://t.co/fJESWDmHbP

— Program On Extremism (@gwupoe) July 26, 2021

Honest old libs, lefties, and others—to any honest person out there: not hard to see what this is in principle.

It’s the end of pretend time. The merging of powerful corporations w/governmental power in a way that was previously unimaginable in America.https://t.co/LVMAt3uNB4

— Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) July 26, 2021

Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database https://t.co/GOPffSguDl

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 26, 2021

A counterterrorism organization formed by tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias https://t.co/pJcjfhV20O

— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) July 26, 2021

Two years after the #ChristchurchCall and the reform of the ⁦@GIFCT_official⁩, it is great to see the ongoing progress of the Tech industry to counter terrorist content in all its forms... @AmbNum⁩ ⁦@PaulAshNZ⁩ https://t.co/W3I4B4YjOM

— lvdefranssu (@lvdefranssu) July 26, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: A counterterrorism organization formed by U.S. tech giants including Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft widens its extremist content database in an effort to crack down on white supremacists and far-right militias https://t.co/8sx0ZIVzOM pic.twitter.com/AEdjhsJwlr

— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) July 26, 2021

Through joint, multi-stakeholder effort, and a willingness to accept that terror manuals are a central, deathly currency of radical right terrorism, it looks like that change is finally imminent: https://t.co/Po1Q641mO2
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— Matthew Feldman (@matthew_feldman) July 26, 2021