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Twitter, Facebook and Youtube announce plan to remove ‘most extreme’ terrorist images and videos

By Dominic Ponsford

Facebook is to work with Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube to slow the spread of extremist content online by creating a shared database of deleted posts.

The social network said the companies would work together to “help curb the spread of terrorist content online” by pooling deleted content into a single database that would enable extreme posts – including terror group recruitment videos – to be more quickly identified across different platforms and removed.

In a blog post announcing the collaboration, Facebook said the “shared industry database” would consist of content that was each given a ‘hash’ or unique digital fingerprint that would help the various sites better and more quickly identify potentially extremist content on their platforms.

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