GIFCT partners with and funds Tech Against Terrorism’s initiatives to mentor tech companies pursuing GIFCT Membership and to facilitate knowledge-sharing efforts among tech companies. As part of this partnership and shared initiatives, Tech Against Terrorism focuses on 1-to-1 support and mentorship for tech companies while GIFCT leads initiatives focused on “1-to-many” approaches, where resources and cross-platform tools can be utilized by multiple companies to combat terrorist and violent extremist exploitation on their platforms.
These shared initiatives include:
- Mentoring tech companies working to meet the requirements for GIFCT membership (learn more about our membership criteria here);
- Hosting and facilitating knowledge-sharing events where tech companies, experts, researchers and practitioners discuss and share findings, best practices and other learnings about online activity with ties to terrorism and violent extremism;
- Tech Against Terrorism identifying URLs where specific terrorist content exists in order to share this information with the hosting platform for removal; and
- GIFCT working to hash identified URLs so GIFCT member companies can identify if the URLs are being shared on their platform and, if so, review that activity against their respective policies and terms of service.