Google intensifies its actions against "terrorist" content

"Machines can help us identify problematic videos, but human experience allows us to distinguish between propaganda videos (...) and information," he explains in his blog

   Google said it is stepping up its efforts to fight against "extremist or terrorism-related" content on its YouTube video platform, thanks in particular to artificial intelligence. Like other Internet giants, Google often receives pressures from governments that ask it to fight more effectively against this type of content. At the end of May, the leaders of the G7 have even accentuated their pressure on these companies.

"We work, like the others, for years to identify and eliminate the contents that go against our rules, but however annoying the truth is, we must recognize, and the economic sector also, that we must do more," the group wrote. on Sunday in a text posted on his blog. This objective "can be a challenge: the video of a terrorist attack can be informative material if it is published by the BBC or apology of violence if it is uploaded in a different context by another user," the group said.

   Google promises to reinforce its use of artificial intelligence, so that computers "help identify and eliminate more extremist or terrorism-related content more quickly." But the firm recognizes that technology can not be the only answer, so it promises to increase "significantly the number of independent experts" in charge of supervising the videos. "The machines can help us identify problematic videos, but human experience allows us to distinguish between propaganda videos (...) and information," he explains.

Recently, YouTube was subject to a boycott of advertising advertisers after the appearance of some ads along with controversial content (anti-Semitic, inciting hatred or advocating terrorism). Facebook published on Thursday a text detailing its measures against extremist propaganda, very similar to these of Google.