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Shedding Light on Terrorist and Extremist Content Removal

Isabelle van der Vegt, Paul Gill, Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Bennett Kleinberg

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Social media and tech companies face the challenge of identifying and removing terrorist and extremist content from their platforms. This paper presents the findings of a series of interviews with Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) partner companies and law enforcement Internet Refer...

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