FB, Google, pledge “counter propaganda” effort

[DBTrek]

Facebook, Google tell Congress they're fighting extremist content with counterpropaganda

...Bickert said that in addition to using image matching and language analysis to identify terror content before it's posted, the company is ramping up what it calls "counterspeech."

Facebook is also working with universities, nongovernmental organizations and community groups around the world "to empower positive and moderate voices," Bickert said.

Google's YouTube, meanwhile, says it will continue to use what it calls the "Redirect Method," developed by Google's Jigsaw research group, to send anti-terror messages to people likely to seek out extremist content through what is essentially targeted advertising....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/faceboo ... ntent.html

Well, that doesn’t sound Orwellian or vaguely menacing at all.

[SilverEagle]

Facebook, Google tell Congress they're fighting extremist content with counterpropaganda

...Bickert said that in addition to using image matching and language analysis to identify terror content before it's posted, the company is ramping up what it calls "counterspeech."

Facebook is also working with universities, nongovernmental organizations and community groups around the world "to empower positive and moderate voices," Bickert said.

Google's YouTube, meanwhile, says it will continue to use what it calls the "Redirect Method," developed by Google's Jigsaw research group, to send anti-terror messages to people likely to seek out extremist content through what is essentially targeted advertising....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/faceboo ... ntent.html

Well, that doesn’t sound Orwellian or vaguely menacing at all.

Anonymous will be the ones we need to rely on in the end. I'm not a huge fan of them at all but the old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" might be on point here.

[Speaker to Animals]

It amuses me that they seem to believe this won't backfire on them like their previous attempts to socially engineer an election outcome.

They just aren't smart enough to figure out how to accomplish it. They would be better off not even attempting it.

[Hwen Hoshino]

I tought Facebook gave up on politics recently. That was what journalists whined about.

[DBTrek]

Twitter's Carlos Monje Jr., director of public policy and philanthropy in the U.S. and Canada, said the company has participated in more than 100 trainings events since 2015 on countering extremist content.

Those training sessions included events in Beirut, Bosnia, Belfast and Brussels and summits at the White House, the United Nations and in London and Sydney, Monje said in his prepared testimony.

Wish I could see what one of these 100+ training events covered. As an aside, Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy? What sort of qualifications does it take to land that gig?

“I say nice things and give shit away like a pro”

[Speaker to Animals]

What sort of qualifications does it take to land that gig?

Affirmative action bingo points.

[nmoore63]

There actually is a lot of skill to putting on philanthropy events on well.

[doc_loliday]

There actually is a lot of skill to putting on philanthropy events on well.

[clubgop]

Twitter's Carlos Monje Jr., director of public policy and philanthropy in the U.S. and Canada, said the company has participated in more than 100 trainings events since 2015 on countering extremist content.

Those training sessions included events in Beirut, Bosnia, Belfast and Brussels and summits at the White House, the United Nations and in London and Sydney, Monje said in his prepared testimony.

Wish I could see what one of these 100+ training events covered. As an aside, Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy? What sort of qualifications does it take to land that gig?

“I say nice things and give shit away like a pro”

Director of public policy and philanthropy in the US and Canada bragging about events in neither the US or Canada.
Well a sense of geography isn't a requirement.

[pineapplemike]