(Sky News) Violent extremists are using AI to evade social media moderation, according to the leader of one of Europe’s leading violence prevention task forces.
Speaking at TikTok’s Trust and Safety Forum in Dublin, Judy Korn, managing director of the Violence Prevention Network, said the nature of extremism was changing along with the tactics used.
“[While] Islamist and far-right extremism is rising,” said Ms Korn, “the sharpest rise in ideologies is in unclear violence and nihilistic violent extremism.”
Nihilistic extremism, she said, isn’t driven by an ideology beyond simply “destruction and chaos” — which makes it harder to catch on social media because it won’t trigger traditional content filters.
