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Big Tech ‘Counterterrorism’ Org Shifts Focus From Islamic Extremism To ‘Far Right’
Breitbart ^ | 7-26-2021 | Allum Bokhari

Posted on 07/26/2021 1:57:38 PM PDT by blam

Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.

The organization, which initially focused on building a database on content shared by Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, will now shift focus to right-wing groups including the Proud Boys.

Via Reuters:

A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.

Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos — often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence — and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

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Yes....this means YOU!
1 posted on 07/26/2021 1:57:38 PM PDT by blam
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And nothing about BLM which burned down cities last year or AntiFa that continues to attack and terrorize…

People - were already in a civil war


2 posted on 07/26/2021 2:00:18 PM PDT by Skywise
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Wonder how surprised they’ll be when they find 15%-20% of their own workforce qualifies?


3 posted on 07/26/2021 2:00:46 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: blam
If you are white, you are presumed to be a "White Supremacist".

4 posted on 07/26/2021 2:01:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: blam
Another source:

Tech Companies Unveil Battle Plans Against Extremist, Hate Groups

They will define who these people are.

5 posted on 07/26/2021 2:02:54 PM PDT by blam
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Those clowns call the Taxed Enough Already movement “right wing”.

As if opposing excessive taxes is somehow “extreme.”


6 posted on 07/26/2021 2:04:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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islamists are the allies of those that are inside the gates


7 posted on 07/26/2021 2:07:24 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: blam

8 posted on 07/26/2021 2:09:45 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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I’ve been told that “far right militia groups” have been “the” problem since the 1970s. Every decade.

Very few incidents they can show me to indicate why they are so scary.

Meanwhile Communist terrorists now have chairs in academia and are continuing to sell the same message as when they were undeniably violent, making straw purchases for weapons used by felons to kill, setting off bombs, robbing banks, and killing cops.


9 posted on 07/26/2021 2:16:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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Anyone who voted for Trump the second time.


10 posted on 07/26/2021 2:17:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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John McCain and John Boner considered the TEA Party extremists and worked to undermine the Republicans that they got elected.


11 posted on 07/26/2021 2:18:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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Focusing on the REAL enemy, at last!

/sarcasm

12 posted on 07/26/2021 2:24:39 PM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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“Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.”

This country is wide open for a major terrorist attack and when it happens, I hope all the companies listed above are on their list.


13 posted on 07/26/2021 2:26:47 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: blam

If you are against abortion you are an extremist.

If you support abortion you are a “devout Catholic.”

Got it?


14 posted on 07/26/2021 2:27:25 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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Half the country shifts their focus from Islamic Terrorism towards Big Left Tech


15 posted on 07/26/2021 2:30:25 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp"

These are the very companies who funded BLM, antifa, and other Marxist organizations......! Don't let the media or these companies get away with this again!

Why aren't these companies and the Biden Administration Helping Cubans gain their freedom?


16 posted on 07/26/2021 2:33:07 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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OK, how many of those very few incidents they can show us were
NOT, in reality, instigated and planned by FBI agents, like we’ve been hearing?

I hope we find out.


17 posted on 07/26/2021 2:33:38 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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FU, Verizon


18 posted on 07/26/2021 2:34:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: moovova

AirB&B? No beach house rentals if you voted for Trump I guess.


19 posted on 07/26/2021 2:35:40 PM PDT by SpaFixr
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Maybe if conservatives started chopping off heads then they'd be considered less of a threat. Worked for Islam.

Hey NSA and big teach monitoring this thread: that was sarcasm.

20 posted on 07/26/2021 2:44:25 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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