Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Google’s Response to Keeping Extremism out of Social Media


Over the past couple of months, Google’s role in countering violent extremism has been the topic of much debate. On the one hand, Google has taken the initiative to help in this endeavor by organization a Summit Against Violent Extremism (which I attended, see my review of the conference here).  On the other hand, YouTube (owned by Google) contains hundreds of extremist and terrorist videos. In addition, other Google owned subsidiaries, like Blogger, also contain extremist content. 

Below is Google’s response to Senator Joseph Lieberman’s questions: 

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