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YouTube is getting tougher on terrorist propaganda videos tech companies have been criticised for not doing enough to stop extremist content from being shared online in light of this Google announced four new steps the company is going to take to stop terrorist messages from spreading on YouTube first it'll use more artificial intelligence and machine learning so that the system can spot this content quicker second it'll expand YouTube's trusted flagger program these super flaggers have the power to alert YouTube staff of 20 videos at once there are 63 organizations now with that power including many police units but Google is adding another 50 non government groups with expertise and things like hate speech self-harm and terrorism third YouTube is taking a new approach in dealing with videos that fall in a grey zone maybe a video doesn't clearly violate a policy but it contains offensive viewpoints regarding religion now when that happens YouTube will put up warnings and make the video harder to find and we'll cut off commenting or liking and fourth is something called the redirect method to fight back against radicalization Google will target advertisements and videos with anti-terrorist messages to potential Isis recruits in hopes to change people's minds about joining this will be implemented more broadly across Europe but it's already in use in the u.s. just last week Facebook also made a similar announcement talking about how it uses AI to better spot and flag terrorist propaganda on the social network Google says it's working with Facebook along with other tech companies to address terrorism concerns I am Bridget Carey for more information head to cnet.com