Altitude is a free utility, which means, communities of all sizes can make use of this tool and empower their fight against misinformation. The more the merrier in this case. Extremist content is usually flagged using image hashes and the digital fingerprints are then used to narrow down and eliminate the violating content. But, if it’s a new tool, the dataset it has been trained on must be limited right?
No, in fact the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism – a group formed in 2017 by industry leading names such as YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook and X, have pooled in their datasets together to make Altitude a full fledged and ready to reply utility.
“Islamic State and other terrorist groups didn’t give up on the Internet just because they no longer had the megaphone of their social media platforms. They went elsewhere. They found this opportunity to host content on file-hosting sites or other websites, small and medium platforms.
