The United States has set up to join a New Zealand-led global campaign to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said, making a policy change two years after the administration of former President Donald Trump declined to participate.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
The Christchurch Call is named after the New Zealand city in which 51 people from the Muslim community were killed in terrorist attacks broadcast live on the Internet on 15 March 2019.
The Christchurch Call is an action plan that commits governments, international organizations and Internet players to take a series of measures, in particular:
- developing tools to prevent the downloading of terrorist and violent extremist content;
- combating the causes of violent extremism; improving transparency in the detection and removal of content; and
- ensuring that the algorithms designed and used by businesses do not direct users towards violent extremist content, so as to reduce their viral nature.
