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06-19-2017, 02:09 AM
Google posts Financial Times op-ed outlining YouTube plans to combat terrorism
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Following a wave of terrorist attacks in the UK (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/uk-twitter-threat-levels-meme/) in recent months, Google's senior vice-president and general counsel, Kent Walker, used one of the leading publications in the country to outline a plan to combat the use by terrorists of Google's tools.*
SEE ALSO: Theresa May renews her call for internet regulation following the London Bridge attack (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/london-bridge--theresa-may-interne/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
On Sunday, Walker posted an op-ed (https://www.ft.com/content/ac7ef18c-52bb-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb) in the Financial Times that listed four distinct steps Google is taking to fight extremists who harness the power of tools like YouTube to spread their messages. *
"We will **w devote more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new 'content classifiers' to help us more quickly identify and remove [extremist and terrorism-related videos]," said Walker. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/18/youtube-anti-terror-tools/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Following a wave of terrorist attacks in the UK (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/uk-twitter-threat-levels-meme/) in recent months, Google's senior vice-president and general counsel, Kent Walker, used one of the leading publications in the country to outline a plan to combat the use by terrorists of Google's tools.*
SEE ALSO: Theresa May renews her call for internet regulation following the London Bridge attack (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/london-bridge--theresa-may-interne/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
On Sunday, Walker posted an op-ed (https://www.ft.com/content/ac7ef18c-52bb-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb) in the Financial Times that listed four distinct steps Google is taking to fight extremists who harness the power of tools like YouTube to spread their messages. *
"We will **w devote more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new 'content classifiers' to help us more quickly identify and remove [extremist and terrorism-related videos]," said Walker. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/18/youtube-anti-terror-tools/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Youtube (http://mashable.com/category/youtube/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Uk (http://mashable.com/category/uk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), London (http://mashable.com/category/london/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Terrorism (http://mashable.com/category/terrorism/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/3E0bbwGOvSA