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Video-conferencing platform Zoom<\/a> has joined a counterterrorism<\/a> organization formed by major U.S. tech companies including Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook<\/a>, and Microsoft<\/a> Corp, the group said on Wednesday.
The move marks the latest expansion of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism<\/a> (GIFCT), an independent group through which member companies share information to combat terrorism and violent extremism on their sites.
Zoom Video<\/a> Communications Inc, which saw usage explode during the COVID-19 pandemic but has faced slowing growth in recent months, has come under scrutiny over how to police content and abuses on its platform.
GIFCT, which has said it wants to broaden its member companies, added five new platforms this year including home-rental giant Airbnb, social network Tumblr and online publishing platform WordPress. It now has 18 members and said it plans for more companies to join in 2022.
Tech companies have long been criticized for failing to curb violent extremist activity on their platforms, though they also face concerns over free expression.
GIFCT was created in 2017 under pressure from U.S. and European governments after a series of deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels. Its founding members were Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Alphabet's YouTube.
The group manages a hash-sharing database, where member companies can share \"hashes,\" unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other companies can use these hashes to identify the same content on their sites and review or remove the material.
\"It is our responsibility to support our users and protect them against online threats,\" said Josh Parecki, Zoom's associate general counsel for trust and safety, in a statement. \"By collaborating with other leaders across the industry, sharing key learnings and advancing research, we aspire to make the digital world a safer place for all.\"
As individuals and companies turned to video-conferencing apps during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, Zoom faced high-profile content moderation issues.
These ranged from abuses like \"zoombombing,\" where uninvited users crashed others' calls to share hate speech and racist, violent or pornographic content, to decisions like its cancellation of a virtual event featuring Leila Khaled, a member of a Palestinian group on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations.
GIFCT's Executive Director Nicholas Rasmussen said in a statement it was delighted to add Zoom as its mission \"requires we work with a diverse range of companies...to develop cross-platform solutions that render terrorists and violent extremists ineffective across the internet.\"
GIFCT has faced criticism from some human and digital rights advocates over centralized or over-broad censorship, and calls for greater transparency.
In July, the organization expanded the scope https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-manifestos-militias-database-2021-07-26 of its hash-sharing database to include attacker manifestos and other publications and URLs flagged by the United Nations initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It also said it would continue to broaden the database to include hashes of audio files or certain symbols.
GIFCT also said on Wednesday it has designed a new membership structure based on company revenue, with suggested annual contributions ranging from $0 to $1 million. It said membership was not contingent on a company's revenue.
The group's members also include Reddit, Snapchat-owner Snap , Verizon Communications and file-sharing service Dropbox.
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视频会议平台变焦已经加入了反恐组织由美国主要科技公司包括元平台公司,原名脸谱网,微软集团,该集团周三表示。
此举标志着最新的扩张全球互联网论坛来对抗恐怖主义(GIFCT),一个独立的集团成员公司通过共享信息打击恐怖主义和暴力极端主义在他们的网站上。
变焦视频通信公司,使用爆炸在COVID-19大流行,但最近几个月面临经济增长放缓,已受到密切关注在如何警察内容和滥用在其平台上。
GIFCT,表示希望扩大其成员公司,今年添加了5个新平台包括租房巨型Airbnb, Tumblr和在线社交网络发布平台WordPress。现在有18个成员和表示,计划在2022年越来越多的公司加入。
科技公司一直未能遏制暴力极端主义活动在他们的平台上,尽管他们还面临着对自由表达的担忧。
GIFCT成立于2017年在美国和欧洲政府的压力下一系列致命袭击后在巴黎和布鲁塞尔。其创始成员Facebook、微软、Twitter和字母的YouTube。
集团管理hash-sharing数据库,成员公司可以分享“散列,“独特的原始的数值表示的内容已经从他们的服务。其他公司可以使用这些散列来确定相同的内容在其网站和审查或删除材料。
“这是我们的责任来支持我们的用户和在线保护他们免受威胁,”乔希Parecki说变焦助理总法律顾问的信任和安全,在一份声明中说。“通过与其他领导人整个行业合作,共享关键的知识和推进研究,我们渴望让数字世界一个更安全的地方。”
作为个人和企业转向视频会议应用程序期间COVID-19封锁限制,变焦面临高调内容适度问题。
这些范围从滥用“zoombombing”,未被邀请的用户撞别人的电话分享仇恨言论和种族歧视、暴力或色情内容,决定像取消虚拟事件莱拉哈立德、巴勒斯坦组织的成员在美国国务院的恐怖组织名单。
GIFCT执行主任尼古拉斯·拉斯穆森在一份声明中说它很高兴添加变焦使命”要求我们处理各种各样的公司…开发的跨平台解决方案,使恐怖分子和暴力极端分子在互联网上无效的。”
GIFCT面临一些人类和数字权利倡导者的批评集中或过于广泛的审查,并呼吁更大的透明度。
7月份,组织范围扩展https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive facebook -科技巨头-目标-宣言民兵-数据库- 2021 - 07 - 26 hash-sharing数据库包含攻击者的宣言和其他出版物和url标记由联合国反恐行动科技。它还表示,将继续扩大数据库包括音频文件或某些符号的散列。
GIFCT周三还表示,它设计了一个新的成员结构基于公司收入,建议年度贡献从0到100万美元。它说会员并不取决于一个公司的收入。
该集团的成员还包括Reddit、Snapchat-owner吸附,Verizon通信和文件共享服务Dropbox。
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