Jacinda Ardern urged tech leaders to take more responsibility during her speech at the Christchurch Call summit in Paris. (Video first published on May 16, 2019)Two years after a terrorist broadcast the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch across the internet, a group of countries and tech companies have managed to curb the spread of similar video livestreams twice. The call had succeeded in producing crisis response protocols used twice since 2019 – for livestreamed attacks in Halle, Germany, and Glendale, Arizona – however the more difficult work of curbing radicalisation through tech companies’ algorithms faced hurdles. More evidence was required to understand how tech companies’ algorithms might promote terrorist and violent content, the officials said. An update report published earlier in the year gave examples of some major companies, including Facebook and YouTube, making tweaks to their systems to prevent the spread of problematic material.

Source: Stuff May 10, 2021 01:30 UTC