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Google to target aspiring ISIS recruits and dissuade them from the apocalyptic violence

by Futures Centre, Oct 27
1 minute read

If Google can identify and steer ISIS recruits, what are they doing to other groups? All benevolent?

Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits

Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field. In the process, it’s stumbled on a powerful tool for getting inside the minds of some of the least understood and most dangerous people on the Internet: potential ISIS recruits.

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