Extremist materials are locked in Facebook and YouTube automatically.
Social network Facebook and YouTube, owned by Google, has launched a system of automatic block extremist videos and other similar content on their pages. However, officially on the matter nor one nor the other company while statements do — data on inclusion on their servers “anti-terrorist filters” received from some knowledgeable individuals.
It is reported that the technology embedded Facebook and Google, aims to prevent attempts to re-publish the content, once recognized as extremist. All technical details were not disclosed, but is said to detect prohibited rollers use specific “digital fingerprints”. This method is similar to that used for detection on the world wide web materials that infringe copyrights, with the help of newly uploaded videos are compared with the previously blacklisted, it is possible to block the placement of unlawful information.
At the same time, the sources did not specify how high the level of human intervention in the process described above, as well as who and what criteria decides on the inclusion of certain extremist videos in the database. Representatives of Facebook and Google reviews is not given.
