Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:54
DON’T BE TERRIFIED! #AskAnExpert | Tom Thorely : He knows counterterrorism and has got our backs.
Hey, I have an idea. Let's prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms. Okay, ready? Go. I know that that's a big mouthful and none of us can do it mostly, but Tom Thorley is on a team and they're doing it. Tom is the director of technology at the global internet forum to counter terrorism. His background is interesting. He worked for the British government's signal intelligence agency. So this is Tom's Jam
Tom Thorley
@tgthorley · 5:00
We build technologies, tom help platforms, collaborate together and share information together. We have researchers, a network of researchers that we fund to really provide deep subject matter expertise into some of the threats that are out there. We run workshops and working groups to bring together some of the best minds from government, civil society and tech companies all together to work on these problems and
Tom Thorley
@tgthorley · 2:44
When there's a terrorist attack around the world, and there's a significant online aspect to that, we have a response function that really helps tech companies coordinate that rapid real time response sharing, information sharing, situational awareness, make sure everyone knows what's going on and how to find the content out. There examples of those. But unfortunately, pretty recently we've had fairly horrific, very horrific episodes
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tom Thorley
@tgthorley · 4:20
And honestly, the landscape, both in terms of technology and in terms of violence, extremism and terrorism is moving so, so quickly that those things are constantly in flux and constantly being developed. And that's a big part of what Gift CT does, right? We we bring together experts to talk about these really tough questions like how do you define terrorism? Or like right now, the Facebook Oversight board are talking about how to moderate the word shahid