How Google's Jigsaw is fighting the darkest parts of the internet

Mashable ^ | JUL 20, 2017 | KERRY FLYNN

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How Google's Jigsaw is fighting the darkest parts of the internet

BY KERRY FLYNN JUL 20, 2017

Fake news, terrorist propaganda, hateful comments — the internet is not the nicest place in the world. Jigsaw is trying to change that.

Formerly under Google, Jigsaw now is a subsidiary within Alphabet. The company, under the direction of Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas founder Jared Cohen who serves as founder and CEO of Jigsaw, focuses on researching some of the darkest corners of the internet and implementing ways to address them.

Yasmin Green, director of research and development at Jigsaw, joined Mashable's Biz Please podcast this week to share what her team has worked on over the last year.

As Mashable business editor Jason Abbruzzese noted, Jigsaw is not just about sitting at your desk, staring at your computer, and looking for tech solutions to the internet's problems.

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"So [I asked], 'If you knew everything you know now would you still have gone?' And they say, 'Yes' and I'm like, 'Why?' and they say, 'At that point I was so convinced, I was so brainwashed,'" Green said. "So the takeaway is this is an access to information problem."

Jigsaw experimented with a program called "Redirect Method," where they looked to target these potential ISIS recruits with online ads that "debunk the ISIS's narrative," educating against terrorism. During an eight-week trial, the program reached 300,000 people in English and Arabic. The viewers watched 500,000 minutes of video

For the case of online harassment, Green pointed to a partnership Jigsaw has currently with The New York Times. The tech company and the news organization are working together to build a moderation system, powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, that will help improve comment moderation on websites.

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China has Digital Great Wall and now Google has Jigsaw.

Yasmin Green, head of research at Jigsaw

[a fool in paradise]

Fake News is NOT the darkest place on the internet.

100 years of Commie coverups of deaths and human rights abuses are far darker.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If Hillary had a bigger supporter than Eric Schmidt, I’d like to know who it was.

[SaveFerris]

[If Hillary had a bigger supporter than Eric Schmidt, I’d like to know who it was.]

I was trying to post a pic of him wearing a Hillary campaign badge - could not get it to post -- is he bigger than this guy?

[freeandfreezing]

Isn't a place where you get fired for expressing the desire to use scientific, rational analysis to solve perceived social problems in a corporation pretty dark?

Maybe the Jigsaw team can look into the kind of idea and viewpoint censorship that appears to be happening at their parent company. Oh nevermind, they'd probably get fired if they did that.

[rfp1234]

Good luck trying to make the Internet gayer and more Islamic at the same time. Maybe they can convince potential terrorists that fighting ‘climate change’ is a more worthwhile career path...

[piasa]

She worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, same company as Harold Thomas Martin and Edward Snowden

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Booz Allen Hamilton is also where Larry Hanauer, a house staffer booted for leaking had worked.

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Now she is running in-house KGB at Google, hunting down thought crimes.

[Gene Eric]

>> Eric Schmidt

Was a fan when he resuscitated Novell. That was an honest free-market fight. Now it seems to be about predatory control of the market and consumers personally.

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“My parents are muslim Iranians” - Yasmine Green.

http://www.vogue.com/article/google-jigsaw-yasmin-green-internet-trolls-web-security

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I suspected as much.

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“My parents are muslim Iranians” - Yasmine Green.

Your eyebrows kind of gave that away, honey.

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