TAT & GIFCT E-learning Session Moderation Online: Beyond Content

TAT & GIFCT E-learning Session

Moderation Online: Beyond Content

10 November 2022 5pm - 6pm GMT

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This webinar is organised in partnership with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).

• Are you a tech professional interested in learning more about how terrorist and violent extremist actors use varying tech platform features for operational purposes, such as internal communication, in addition to communicative and recruitment purposes?
• Are you a government or law enforcement official interested in understanding how moderation online goes beyond traditional propaganda content, based on how terrorist and violent extremist actors use evolving tech platform features?
• Are you an academic or researcher interested in learning more about the complex challenges faced by tech platforms in countering strategic and operational terrorist use of the internet?

For our November webinar of the 2022 Tech Against Terrorism & GIFCT e-learning series, we take an in-depth look into how terrorist and violent extremist actors use technology services for operational purposes. Research into terrorist use of the internet has a strong focus on strategic communications and external messaging, such as propaganda targeting the public and recruitment messaging campaigns. However, terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet for operational purposes, such as internal communication and attack planning, presents a new set of challenges for counterterrorism practitioners and tech platforms. This operational use often occurs more covertly than external messaging, generally in private online spaces. In this webinar, we will discuss how terrorist and violent extremist actors use a range of tech platforms and their features for operational use, such as internal communication and coordination. We will also discuss the challenges in effectively countering terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet, while safeguarding human rights and freedom of expression.

As always, this webinar session will finish with a Q&A session that is open to all attendees.

More information about the speakers and the agenda will be shared soon.

If you would like to sign up to this free webinar, please register with your institutionally affiliated email address – note that registration does not guarantee participation, and access to this webinar will be limited. This webinar will be held under Chatham house rules.

About our webinar series

Tech Against Terrorism and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) are pleased to present our series of e-learning webinars for 2022. These free webinar sessions are particularly suited for tech professionals, content moderators, counterterrorism researchers, and others interested in learning more about terrorist use of technology and the internet more widely – and how to counter it.

As a participant, you will have the opportunity to engage directly with a wide range of experts, and explore practical ways to support smaller tech companies in tackling the terrorist use of the internet whilst respecting human rights. Over the course of the upcoming webinars, GIFCT and Tech Against Terrorism will convene some of the industry's leading counterterrorism experts and practitioners, policy researchers, and tech companies’ representatives.

If you have any questions about this or future webinars, or if you would like to collaborate for future sessions, please email contact@techagainstterrorism.org.