Google has announced four new steps they will be employing to tackle extremist content across all of its services, especially YouTube. The company said that it's also been working with government, law enforcement and civil society groups for this purpose. Using technology to identify extremist content Google said that they "have used video analysis models to find and assess more than 50% of the terrorism-related content" they have removed over the past six months. However, the challenge is to differentiate between a news report of a terror attack published by a legitimate news organization, and the same video "uploaded in a different context by a different user." The company will now develop new “content classifiers” that can identify and remove such content quicker. More independent experts in YouTube's Trusted Flagger programme Google claimed that Trusted Flagger reports are accurate over 90% of the time, which is three times the accuracy rate of an average flagger, and so they will be expanding it by adding 50 new expert NGOs to the 63 such organizations that are currently part of the programme, and provide them with operational grants. The new experts will be from specialized organizations with working knowledge of "issues like hate speech, self-harm, and terrorism," and counter-extremist groups who have the expertise to identify content which might be used to radicalize and recruit extremists. The Trusted Flagger programme was started in 2012. They have access to a tool that allows for reporting multiple videos, violating YouTube's Community Guidelines, at the same time.…
