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Tech Against Terrorism's insight and research cited in the media.

News Mention: 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...

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News Mention: Ofcom and the Online Safety Act

Tech against Terrorism, a UN-backed organisation that tackles online terrorism, believes that in practice Ofcom may not use the powers that much.

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News Mention: 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...

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News Mention: 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...

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News Mention: Why mass shooting videos keep spreading online

Tech Against Terrorism, has said it would begin alerting individual tech companies when it finds copies of the Buffalo livestream or the document on...

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Time magazine

News Mention: Social Media Companies Vowed To Stop Videos of Terror Attacks.

Many versions of these videos had been edited—with added text or blurring or cropping—in apparent successful attempts to evade the platforms’...

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News Mention: 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,...

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News Mention: Taliban content on social media

The United Nations-backed Tech Against Terrorism said it’s accelerating the inclusion of Taliban content into its terrorism database, Protocol’s...

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News Mention: Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos

Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos - often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence - and other...

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Axios

News Mention: Tech and counterterrorism

"If there are organizations that are currently promoting violence, it seems very strange that the only the only response we seem to have is to delete...

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