{"id":266507,"date":"2016-09-09T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-run-project-redirect-method-to-tackle-isis-propaganda-but-now-focus-on-the-far-right\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:10:24","slug":"google-run-project-redirect-method-to-tackle-isis-propaganda-but-now-focus-on-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/google-run-project-redirect-method-to-tackle-isis-propaganda-but-now-focus-on-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Google-run project &quot;redirect method&quot; to tackle ISIS propaganda, but now focus on the far right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot project launched by Google\u2019s startup incubator and a British IT company will target potential Islamic State recruits \u2013 and also the American far right \u2013 with new software that pairs violence-related search entries with anti-extremism ads.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) has made extensive use of online and social media platforms to spread its vision of radical Islam or lure recruits to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Now the world\u2019s largest search engine has announced an unconventional project that aims to help counter extremists\u2019 propaganda messages and de-radicalize those in danger of falling under their influence.<\/p>\n<p>Jigsaw, a technology incubator run by Google, has teamed up with London-based startup Moonshot CVE to design technology capable of redirecting a potential Islamist browsing for IS-related words and phrases to creative anti-extremist messages or videos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Redirect Method is a new way to confront online radicalization with targeted advertising <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ySc8XK6MU6\">https:\/\/t.co\/ySc8XK6MU6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rZwUiZsFOK\">pic.twitter.com\/rZwUiZsFOK<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Jigsaw (@JigsawTeam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JigsawTeam\/status\/773571150022606848\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Called <em>\u2018The Redirect Method,\u2019<\/em> the program operated in trial mode for eight weeks from January to March, according to the Christian Science Monitor. It reached over 320,000 people searching for IS-associated keywords, from the terrorist group\u2019s slogans to the names of buildings in Islamist-held areas.<\/p>\n<p>The users\u2019 metadata was collected during the eight-week trial and was used to send them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/google-run-project-redirect-method-to-tackle-isis-propaganda-but-now-focus-on-the-far-right\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot project launched by Google\u2019s startup incubator and a British IT company will target potential Islamic State recruits \u2013 and also the American far right \u2013 with new software that pairs violence-related search entries with anti-extremism ads. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) has made extensive use of online and social media platforms to spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}