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06-16-2017, 01:48 AM
Facebook vows to fight terrorism with new algorithms and artificial intelligence
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Facebook has a terrorism problem, and its vowing to fix it. On Thursday, the social media giant an**unced (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/how-we-counter-terrorism/) new plans to use artificial intelligence to scrape words, images, and video in order to wipe terrorist propaganda from its network entirely.
The only catch? It still requires a team of 150 counterterrorism experts as well as plenty of other people to fight extremism on the platform. We can only hope this new AI tool is as sophisticated as Facebook claims it is.
SEE ALSO: In search of Facebook’s conscience (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/facebook-has-**-heart/)
"We are currently focusing our most cutting edge techniques to combat terrorist content about ISIS, Al Qaeda and their affiliates, and we expect to expand to other terrorist organizations in due course," Facebook said in a statement (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/how-we-counter-terrorism/) about the update. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/facebook-fights-isis-artificial-intelligence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Facebook has a terrorism problem, and its vowing to fix it. On Thursday, the social media giant an**unced (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/how-we-counter-terrorism/) new plans to use artificial intelligence to scrape words, images, and video in order to wipe terrorist propaganda from its network entirely.
The only catch? It still requires a team of 150 counterterrorism experts as well as plenty of other people to fight extremism on the platform. We can only hope this new AI tool is as sophisticated as Facebook claims it is.
SEE ALSO: In search of Facebook’s conscience (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/facebook-has-**-heart/)
"We are currently focusing our most cutting edge techniques to combat terrorist content about ISIS, Al Qaeda and their affiliates, and we expect to expand to other terrorist organizations in due course," Facebook said in a statement (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/how-we-counter-terrorism/) about the update. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/facebook-fights-isis-artificial-intelligence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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