Platforms built a shared cross-company censorship database to police terrorist content.

Evidence

In 2017 surveillance capitalists, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Twitter, established the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. The objective was to tighten the net of instrumentarian power through “collaboration on engineering solutions to the problem of sharing content classification techniques,” “counterspeech initiatives,” and a shared database of “unique digital fingerprints” for violent terrorist imagery to accelerate the identification of terrorist accounts. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1233

Categorization

• XREF: The shared database of ‘digital fingerprints’ parallels surveillance-capital’s earlier data-sharing architectures documented in the book.