Colonel Kurtz used to spend hours playing social games like Farmville. Now he hunts terrorists on the internet.Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley’s job. Is that why it’s failing? Read moreThe pseudonymous 41-year-old, who runs his own construction company, is one of dozens of volunteer hunters to dedicate hours each day trying to identify and infiltrate terror groups online and block the spread of their propaganda.Were trying to save lives and get this crap off the net to keep the next vulnerable kid from seeing propaganda and thinking its cool, said Kurtz.These hunters plug a gap in social media companies ability to keep terrorists off their networks by obsessively tracking and reporting Isiss most prominent recruiters and propagandists across private messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp and public networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Some of them also provide valuable tip-offs of credible threats to law enforcement.
Källa: Global network of ’hunters’ aim to take down terrorists on the internet | Technology | The Guardian
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