Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) is an Internet industry initiative to prevent the use of the Internet to promote terrorism. Founded in 2017 by a consortium of companies spearheaded by Facebook (now known as Meta), Google/YouTube, Microsoft and Twitter, it was created as an organization in 2019 and its membership has expanded to include 18 companies as of the end of 2021.[1] The GIFCT began as a shared hash database of ISIS-related material but expanded to included a wider array of violent extremist content in the wake of the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that was live streamed on Facebook.[2]

GIFCT logo

Members include Microsoft, Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), YouTube, Twitter, Airbnb, Discord, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Amazon, Mailchimp, Pinterest, JustPaste.it, Tumblr, WordPress.com and Zoom.[3]

GIFCT maintains a database of perceptual hashes of terrorism-related videos and images that is submitted by its members, and which other members can voluntarily use to block the same material on their platforms.[3] The material indexed includes images, videos and will be expanded to include URLs and textual data such as manifestos and other documents.[4]

See also

References
  1. "GIFCT Annual Report 2021" (PDF). GIFCT.org. Global Internet Forum for Counter Terrorism. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  2. Radsch, Courtney (20 September 2020). "GIFCT: Possibly the Most Important Acronym You've Never Heard Of". Just Security. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. "GIFCT Membership". GIFCT. Retrieved 28 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Culliford, Elizabeth (2021-07-26). "Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-02-23.


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