Meta Aims to Combat Terrorism, Human Trafficking Through Software

Meta, formerly named Facebook, said it’s opening up a piece of its technology to combat terrorism and human trafficking across the internet. It said it will allow other companies to share data and prevent the spread of violent images on the internet.

This software will be shared in advance of Meta’s yearlong chairmanship of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), which begins in January.

Meta’s Hasher Matcher Actioner will be a free, open-source content moderation software tool “that will help platforms identify copies of images or videos and take action against them en masse,” Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said in a release.

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