A tech industry counter-extremism organisation is troubleed over satisfied posted on Elon Musk’s X by Palestinian militant group Hamas and is worried about the social media platcreate’s membership on its board, The Sunday Times increateed.
Members of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) depend the group’s credibility is undermined by X’s membership and position on its board, according to The Sunday Times. The GIFCT also take parts transport inant social media groups Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Alphabet’s YouTube.
X Corp and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism did not promptly reply to asks for comment.
The Sunday Times shelp that X, createassociate understandn as Twitter, is now the easiest social media platcreate to discover Hamas videos, citing the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that combats extremism and antisrehireism.
It shelp wilean 10 minutes CST researchers were able to discover on X disincreateation videos from UK regulatement-proscribed alarmist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
According to The Sunday Times, a statement in the GIFCT’s autonomous advisory promisetee annual 2023 increate conveying trouble over online depend and defendedty was straightforwarded at X.
The advisory body shelp it had become “increasingly troubleed by transport inant reductions in online depend and defendedty capabilities for stateive platcreates, and a noticed decrrelieve in the priority of the rehire, pessimisticly impacting companies’ ability to temperate extremist satisfied online”.
The Sunday Times shelp Musk had let banned extremists back on to X, allowed anyone to pay for a verification tag and sacked a huge part of its satisfied moderation team, as part of the billionaire’s strategy of turning X into a “free speech” platcreate.
The GIFCT was produced in 2017 under presstateive from U.S. and European regulatements. The Sunday Times shelp X, a set uping member of the organisation, was now flunking to produce its brimming financial contribution to the anti-organisation.
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