GIFCT’s Incident Response Framework guides how GIFCT and members respond to a mass violent incident, streamlining how members can communicate and share situational awareness as an incident unfolds in order to identify any online dimension to the offline attack. Following the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, GIFCT members established a centralized communications mechanism to share news of ongoing incidents that might result in the spread of violent content produced by the perpetrators of the unfolding incident. GIFCT and its members initiate communications in response to a wide range of violent incidents in recognition that many different forms of violence can involve the exploitation of digital platforms as part of the attack. Guided by the Incident Response Framework, GIFCT leadership and members can then determine whether to activate certain levels of the framework reflecting whether the perpetrators are exploiting digital platforms as part of their violent attack and the form of online content or activity that may take. Read more about this work here.
