Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Fight Terrorism - South-South News

Facebook has revealed it is using artificial intelligence in its ongoing fight to prevent terrorist propaganda from being disseminated on its platform. "We want to find terrorist content immediately, before people in our community have seen it," read the message posted Thursday. "Already, the majority of accounts we remove for terrorism we find ourselves. But we know we can do better at using technology -- and specifically artificial intelligence -- to stop the spread of terrorist content on Facebook." Some of the roles AI plays involve "image matching" to see if an uploaded image matches something previously removed because of its terrorist content. "Language understanding," the company says, will allow it to "understand text that might be advocating for terrorism."