Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube have all agreed on a pact to help curb the spread of content they define as “terrorist” with the companies co-creating a database that will exclude such material from their social networks.
Each company has promised “swift action” against “content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services” with the the creation of a shared industry database of “hashes” of content geared towards terrorist recruitment, through a system that will see them “fingerprint” accounts spreading such imagery.
