Google Targets Jihadis, American Right-Wing Radicals With Propaganda Program
ERIC LIEBERMAN
DailyCaller.com
09/08/2016
Google and other tech companies are using a system that targets prospective Islamic State recruits, and the mechanism will soon be used to target supposed right-wing extremists in North America.
The initial testing phase of the program gathered critical data on 320,000 individuals in eight weeks, by parsing and searching for 1,700 keywords. The targets were then provided advertisements, which led them to video content that painted a highly negative picture of ISIS, according to The Intercept.
Details about the current program and what to expect for the future were the topic of discussion at a Brookings Institution event, with speakers from the London-based start up Moonshot CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) and Jigsaw, a technology incubator created by Google.
“Our efforts during phase two, when we’re going to focus on the violent far right in America, will be very much focused on the small element of those that are violent. The interesting thing about how they behave is they’re a little bit more brazen online these days than ISIS fan boys,” Co-founder Ross Frenett said, according to The Intercept.
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