Panel 7C: GIFCT’s Hash Sharing Database - Research Collaboration Opportunities
Chairs: Erin Saltman (GIFCT) & Scott Johnson (GIFCT)
Abstract: There remain gaps between the terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) that researchers surface through their work, and the technological solutions deployed by platforms to surface and moderate content. This workshop explores how researchers can transform parts of their TVEC databases into actionable signals for tech platforms. GIFCT is looking to collaborate with researchers to enhance its Hash Sharing Database (HSDB), however, feedback from the research community is needed to ensure sensitive partnerships are done with trust, transparency, and reliability. This workshop will take attendees through an exercise to understand how the GIFCT HSDB taxonomy has expanded to incorporate list based and behavior-based approaches for inclusion parameters. The group will discuss challenges researchers face in describing TVEC that they interact with and GIFCT will guide participants to think through: •How adversarial shifts might need cross-platform solutions to evolve (e.g. generative AI content); •What signals beyond content might be valuable for countering terrorism and violent extremism online; and, •What kinds of descriptive frameworks or specific elements of descriptions would be useful from the point of view of researchers.
The session will map researchers’ needs for future collaborations to enhance the HSDB, including what training or technical support should be provided to researchers and practitioners involved
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