More than two thousand publications related to terrorism and violent extremism were reported on the TikTok platform as part of a European operation to reference and eliminate online content in which the Portuguese Judicial Police (PJ) participated.
According to the European Union Police Cooperation Agency, better known as Europol, around 2,145 contents were identified in the operation, including elements linked to ‘jihadism’, right-wing violent extremism and terrorism, such as videos and memes, which They referred to TikTok for voluntary review.
In a statement, Europol clarifies that, on September 28, “a large-scale voluntary signaling day took place between TikTok, Europol’s European Counter-Terrorism Center (ECTC) and 11 countries”, including Portugal, aimed at ” suspicious content of terrorism”. and violent extremism online.
“In collaboration with the video-sharing platform TikTok, researchers from participating countries, together with the European Union’s Internet Reporting Unit (IRU) of ECTC, carried out an exercise to detect material glorifying terrorist attacks past or to perpetrators of terrorist acts”, EUROPOL additional states.
TikTok regularly publishes violent extremism content takedown statistics in its quarterly transparency reports.
The latest report shows that TikTok proactively removed 95% of violent extremism content.
The action under review was launched by the authorities of Spain and the EU Internet Reporting Unit (EU IRU), in cooperation with the law enforcement authorities of the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The EU IRU was created on 1 July 2015 and is based at Europol’s European Counter-Terrorism Centre.
Europol also states that this “day of action on diversion is part of an ongoing public-private partnership between TikTok, law enforcement authorities and Europol, which aims to combat internet abuse by terrorists, prevent online radicalization and safeguard fundamental rights”.
Europol also claims that it carried out similar exercises with other IT platforms.
Source: TSF
