a Few days after that a French couple found the bodies of the Norwegian Maren Ueland and Danish Louisa Vesterager Jespersen outside the tent in the atlas mountains in Morocco, began a fierce video to spread online.
It was sent to the victims ‘ family members and quickly spread over multiple social networks. The Danish intelligence service PET and the Kripos soon realized that there was talk of a battle against time – and that they needed help to get it stopped the spread.
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The first video, which lasts slightly over one minute, shows the execution of one of the women.
the Video is dark and the camera was moving, so it is not possible to identify the victim, ” says jihadistforsker at the Danish institute for international studies, Tore Refslund Hamming, to the Danish newspaper Berlingske.
He has seen a little bit of both the videos and describes it as “one of the most terrible and horrifying he has seen.”
Police could not initially confirm whether the video was real, but they were soon faced with an additional challenge: The 20. December was ticking it into a message to Hamming from an ICE-sympathizer that even a drapsrelatert video came to be uploaded.
the Video shows four men in front of a ICE-flag. The four on the video swear allegiance to the ICE. Nothing of what is said can be directly related to the dobbeltdrapet, but the police could patch the details together.
the Videos were real and they spread on social media like fire in dry grass.
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Even though the intelligence services usually handles the removal of unwanted content from the web though, was this video considered particularly violent – and they saw themselves forced to do something drastic, writes Berlingske.
From hastemeldingen was sent across the Atlantic from the Danish PET, and up to all of the social giants had gotten the message, it went in just under two hours.
According to Hans Marius Tessem, chairman of the Slettmeg.en in NorSIS, there are several mechanisms that help to weed out content that is laid out to terrorize or spread propaganda on the web.
– If there is a large social network such as Facebook, can these files be tagged. When one uses something called “hashverdi” or a bildegjenkjenningsverdi that says that the content should not be uploaded again, ” says Tessem to the Newspaper.
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Videos that have the music can be stopped because they have a copyright which means that you are not allowed to upload them.
It is also often søkemotortreff which is an efficient tool when one wants to refine the ability to find these videos, ” he adds.
– A utopia to believe that it disappears,
today it is namely not to talk about terrorists without access to modern technology; social networks are heavily used not only to spread propaganda and recruit new members, but also to terrorize the victims ‘ family members further.
Just in the course of the first quarter of 2018 deleted Facebook 14.3 million images and videos that had connection with terror. On Twitter, it was in the same year suspended over 200 000 accounts linked to the terror .
Tessem explains that it really is impossible to get removed this content for good.
It is a utopia to believe that it disappears. It will always be online, but you can still limit the spread and availability of the content, ” he says.
Tessem emphasizes that those who want to spread the propagandavideoer can use all possible platforms and, even if the account is deleted, they are commonly quick to create a new account.
They will just continue and continue. The only way to stop it is to stop them physically, he states.
the Terrorists useful idiots
The original division of such videos come from terrorists with a propaganda aim, but Tessem emphasizes that this is a twofold issue where users of social media helps to accomplish the terrorists goals.
On the one hand we have a terrorist group who want to spread these videos as much as possible, and on the other side we have those who videredeler or referring to the videos.
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They have not necessarily any other purpose than to show others how bad it is, and thinks that they just make matters worse. Thus they become the useful idiots for the terrorists, ” he says.
Both the family of Louisa and Mary received the horrific images and the unpleasant messages in the aftermath of the murder.
The saw itself finally forced to deactivate Facebook accounts when they were sent both drapsvideoen and similar stilbilder.
head of communications for Facebook in the Nordic countries, Peter Münster, emphasizes the opposite Dagbladet that propagandainnhold not have a place on social media.
last year, it was used billions of dollars to improve systems to prevent the spread of propagandavideoer on the platform, and this year we’re going to spend even more money on the security system, ” he says.
The biggest platforms are the safest
Since whatever we post on the web leaves a kind of technological fingerprints, it is thus possible for the largest networks to weed them out relatively effectively – but it is also almost impossible to delete it from the web for good.
Facebook, which says that mediantida to delete unwanted content from the platform is in under two minutes, should now have good technical opportunities to stop the propaganda on their platform.
the Problem occurs when the content is also divided in smaller social networks.
as far As I know, there are no such limitations on Snapchat. Moreover, it is the part undergrunnsnettverk that it is difficult to have control on.
What we experience is that the less known, in the media, the social networks are, the more creative we must be to remove the content, ” says Tessem.
He adds that we probably are better at this in the future, and that it’s going to be much more awareness of this to share propagandavideoer even if one does not necessarily support the content.
despite a tireless effort to prevent the spread of drapsvideoen from Morocco on social media, appeared it still up on new in the middle of January.
Berlingske informing you that the Danish police have received a “not insignificant number” of reviews that the video has been seen and shared again.
the 22 men have in the meantime been arrested in connection with killings in Morocco.
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