Fight against terrorism and cyber hate : Crif training of Facebook moderators

Having conducted an awareness session at Twitter France in Paris, Marc Knobel, Director of Crif Studies at , visited the headquarters of Facebook in Dublin (Ireland), Friday, April 22, 2016. He was accompanied by Stéphane Lacombe, Deputy Director of the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AfVT.org).

 

Several French or English executives of Facebook, including Anton 'Maria Battesti - public policy manager - were able to benefit from a complete training centered on radicalism and victimization as first steps before violent acts and terrorism, and also about the multiple expressions of anti-Semitism in France (modeling, statistics, penal dispositions in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism and reporting illegal contents).

 

Legal provisions which allow digital actors to intervene more and more against racist and anti-Semitic contents, and against apology of terrorism, were also discussed by Marc Knobel and Stéphane Lacombe.

 

The major goal of this meeting was to build awareness and understanding at Facebook about the phenomenon of victimization, matrix of radicalization, and about the dangers of anti-Semitism contents on social networks.