A tech industry counter-terrorism group is concerned about content posted on Elon Musk’s
Members of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) believe the group’s credibility is being undermined by X’s membership and position on the board, according to The Sunday Times. The GIFCT also includes major social media groups Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Alphabet’s YouTube.
X Corp and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Sunday Times said X, formally known as Twitter, is now the easiest social media platform to find Hamas videos, citing the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that fights extremism and anti-Semitism.
Within ten minutes, CST researchers were able to find propaganda videos on X from the British government-banned terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
According to The Sunday Times, a statement in the GIFCT Independent Advisory Committee’s 2023 annual report raising concerns about online trust and safety targeted X.
The advisory body said it is “increasingly concerned about the significant reduction in online trust and security capabilities for certain platforms, and a perceived decrease in the priority of the issue, which is negatively impacting companies’ ability to contain extremist content online to moderate”.
The Sunday Times said Musk had allowed banned extremists back on X, allowed everyone to pay for a trust mark and fired much of his content moderation team, as part of the billionaire’s strategy to turn of expression’.
The GIFCT was founded in 2017 under pressure from American and European governments. The Sunday Times said that X, one of the organisation’s founders, had now failed to make his full financial contribution to the anti-organisation.
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