July 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A global “counterterrorism” database to collect “extremist” social media content is expanding its reach to focus on “far-right” groups and “white supremacists,” Reuters reported Monday.
The database is owned and operated by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an international organization created in 2017 by Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft, and Facebook after the Islamic terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.
We are mentioned in this @Reuters piece on @GIFCT_official expanding the inclusion criteria for the GIFCT’s hash-sharing database. https://t.co/iAV8ZA8eyR
— Tech Against Terrorism (@techvsterrorism) July 26, 2021
Reuters says the database, used by 14 Big Tech corporations including Reddit, Instagram, and Verizon, is now set to crack down on “far-right” groups, “including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
But the GIFCT’s focus is not isolated to a few fringe organizations.
A June 22 report published by the research arm of the organization positions Trump-supporters and “MAGA actors” alongside fringe right-wing militia groups, and identifies those opposed to COVID-19 lockdowns and mandatory masking as members of “extremist movements.”
The report goes on to describe anyone who believes the unprecedented COVID-19 restrictions are “evidence of a deep state (or big government) conspiracy encroaching
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