Google creates free tool for small online platforms to tackle terrorist content

San Francisco, Nov 12: Google has created a free tool for small, user-created online platforms to deal with terrorist content.

Called Altitude, the free tool is built by Jigsaw -- a unit within Google that tracks extremism, disinformation and censorship -- and non-profit group called 'Tech Against Terrorism'.

The tool gives small online platforms access to a central database of content deemed to be created by terrorist organisations, reports The Wired.

The database, maintained by the UN-backed online counter-terrorism group Tech Against Terrorism, is already used by major tech companies.

“The tool aims to give smaller platforms the ability to easily and efficiently detect terrorist content on their networks and remove it,” the report noted. The project is also working with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, an industry-led group founded in 2017 by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube.