Curtailing extremist propaganda and the digital world

The amount of online videos promoting, recruiting, and broadcasting extremist content has grown in the past twenty years and has become an important tool for extremist groups. Terrorist groups are able to reach millions of people using few resources and minimal expense expense due to the ubiquitous nature of digital media. The videos are used for recruiting, raising funds, and promoting extremist ideologies, and cast a wide net once uploaded to the Internet.…