Membership

Are you a tech company interested in strengthening your capacity to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online?

Apply for GIFCT membership to join over 35 other tech companies working together to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting online platforms by leveraging technology, expertise, and cross-platform and cross-sector partnerships.

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GIFCT’s membership spans companies large and small and includes the full spectrum of the tech stack – including social media, marketplace and e-commerce, file sharing, AI, video streaming, gaming, and more – demonstrating that all platforms can play a role in keeping the internet free from terrorist and violent extremist activity.

Become a GIFCT member and receive access to:

A Trusted Global Community

Being a GIFCT member signals a strong commitment to online safety and willingness to work with other platforms and partners, enhancing a company’s credibility with policymakers, users, and civil society. Members join a trusted global community of industry leaders, subject-matter experts, and practitioners in a unique collaborative network.

Technical Solutions

GIFCT members have access to the hash-sharing database, which allows companies to quickly identify and share “hashes” (or “digital fingerprints”) of known terrorist and violent extremist content in a secure, efficient, and privacy-protecting manner, and action content in line with their respective policies and terms of service.

Coordinated Incident Response

The Incident Response Framework is the mechanism that helps GIFCT member companies respond efficiently and collaboratively to online dimensions of offline violence. Members gain from real-time, cross-platform dialogue, supporting timely and informed incident responses.

Subject Matter Expertise

GIFCT membership provides access to global experts and a suite of resources, trainings, and tailored research to empower member trust and safety efforts. Benefits include the members-only portal, Compass, for access to bespoke resources, as well as platform-specific analysis from the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), GIFCT’s academic research arm.

Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration

Regional workshops, multistakeholder Working Groups, and international events provide GIFCT members with opportunities to collaborate with a global multistakeholder community, deepen their understanding of regional trends and threats, and shape the future of online safety.

Members

GIFCT’s Membership Process

Apply for membership to meet with GIFCT’s Membership Advisory Program (MAP) team, which supports prospective member companies as they work towards full membership. Digital platforms seeking to join GIFCT must meet specific membership criteria, ensuring alignment with GIFCT mission and values. MAP assists prospective members in meeting these criteria in a way that reflects their individualized needs and timing.

MAP also supports current GIFCT members in ensuring continued alignment with our criteria,  and provides tech platforms with tailored, complimentary support designed to meet each company’s unique needs, such as:

  • crafting and revising their policies and/or community guidelines,
  • Providing platform specific OSINT threat assessment
  • helping improve their human rights commitments, and
  • strengthening their commitments to transparency reporting.

In accordance with GIFCT policy, all members are required to contribute annual membership dues based on their membership tier.

GIFCT’s Membership Criteria

  1. Terms of service, community guidelines, or other publicly available policies that explicitly prohibit terrorist and/or violent extremist activity. The platform explicitly states their prohibition of terrorism or violent extremism in a public policy.
  2. The ability to receive, review, and act on both reports of activity that is illegal and/or violated terms of service and user appeals. The platform explains how users have the ability to report content and appeal moderation decisions.
  3. A desire to explore new technical solutions to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online. The platform outlines how it uses automated tools for content moderation or expresses interest in engaging with GIFCT’s hash-sharing database or other technical tools.
  4. Regular, public data transparency reports. The platform publishes a regular transparency report that includes numbers of takedowns in general.
  5. A public commitment to respecting human rights in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The platform makes an explicit commitment to upholding human rights in a public policy, with an explanation of how this applies to its content moderation efforts and references the UNGPs.
  6. Support for expanding the capacity of civil society organizations to challenge terrorism and violent extremism. Platforms should be able to articulate how they are actively seeking to collaborate with civil society including consultations on policies and enforcement against harms from terrorism and violent extremism.
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