Video games simulate real terrorist attacks
A gaming platform enabled users to play as the original perpetrators, according to Tech Against Terrorism (Tat), a UN-backed group that counters...
Google develops free terrorism moderation tool for smaller websites
Google is developing a free moderation tool that smaller websites can use to identify and remove terrorist material, as new legislation in the UK and...
Ofcom ‘will get more power than spies’ to monitor apps
Tech against Terrorism, a UN-backed organisation that tackles online terrorism, believes that in practice Ofcom may not use the powers that much.
Terrorists’ use of tech in West Africa must be contained
A recent workshop in Ghana organised by Tech Against Terrorism (TAT) laid out the expansive nature of online terrorist content in West Africa and...
UN-backed tech group adds Taliban to list of terrorist organizations
The group, Tech Against Terrorism, added the Taliban, which has regained control of Afghanistan amid the pullout of U.S. forces, to its Terrorist...
Why mass shooting videos keep spreading online even as tech giants try to stop them
Tech Against Terrorism, has said it would begin alerting individual tech companies when it finds copies of the Buffalo livestream or the document on...
Social Media Companies Vowed To Stop Videos of Terror Attacks. Buffalo Showed They Have More Work To Do
Many versions of these videos had been edited—with added text or blurring or cropping—in apparent successful attempts to evade the platforms’...
Russian mercenaries in Ukraine linked to far-right extremists
Adam Hadley, the executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, a London-based initiative supported by the UN counter-terrorism executive directorate,...
Study finds sites that mislead, not flat-out lie, attract record share of Facebook engagements
The United Nations-backed Tech Against Terrorism said it’s accelerating the inclusion of Taliban content into its terrorism database, Protocol’s...
Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos - often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence - and other...