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A Google-incubated program that has been targeting potential ISIS members with deradicalizing content will soon be used to target violent right-wing extremists in North America, a designer of the program said at an event at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday.
Using research and targeted advertising, the initiative by London-based startup Moonshot CVE and Google’s Jigsaw technology incubator targets potentially violent jihadis and directs them to a YouTube channel with videos that refute ISIS propaganda.
In the pilot program countering ISIS, the so-called Redirect Method collected the metadata of 320,000 individuals over the course of eight weeks, using 1,700 keywords, and served them advertisements that led them to the videos. Collectively, the targets watched more than half a million minutes of videos.
The event at Brookings was primarily about the existing program aimed at undermining ISIS recruiting. “I think this is an extremely promising method,” said Richard Stengel, U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
Ross Frenett, co-founder of Moonshot, said his company and Jigsaw are now working with funding from private groups, including the Gen Next Foundation, to target other violent extremists, including on the hard right.
“We are very conscious — as our own organization and I know Jigsaw are — that this [violent extremism] is not solely the problem of one particular group,” Frenett said.
“Our efforts during phase two, when we’re going to focus on the violent far right in America, will be very much focused on the small element of those that are violent. The interesting thing about how they behave is they’re a little bit more brazen online these days than ISIS fan boys,” Frenett said.
He noted that this new target demographic is more visible online.
“In the U.K., if someone in their Facebook profile picture has a swastika and is pointing a gun at the camera, that person is committing a crime,” Frenett said. “In the U.S., there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. So we found that when we’re looking for individuals that are genuinely at risk of carrying out violence, that they’re relatively open online.”
originally posted by: Reverbs
a reply to: MysticPearl
actually you are being tracked right now every word you just typed.. it doesn't matter if they can match that to your "person" just your IP address...
originally posted by: MysticPearl
You play their game by posting stupid crap all over social media.
The easy way to avoid this is to keep your private life, private, as everyone's parents and grandparents and great-grandparents did.
Social media most certainly is used to spy on citizens. Takes two to tango though. They essentially ask you for permission to spy on you, then you grant it.
and thta lovely pokemon game that tracks everything google is conected to... that comes with gps tracking and gawd wait till they add the voice commands part of the game LOL
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: boncho
I wonder if you are considered a 'right wing extremist' if you consider the use of this technology offensive to humanity.