Description
This paper examines how global counter‑terrorism increasingly relies on complex data infrastructures, focusing on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) hash‑sharing database, a tool used to limit the spread of terrorist and violent extremist content online. Through interviews with platform counterterrorism experts and an analysis of the material practices behind hash‑sharing, the study shows how this sociotechnical system is reshaping legal processes, redistributing power, and creating new forms of algorithmic governance. It highlights how data infrastructures and law co‑evolve in practice, generating “infra‑legal” dynamics that traditional legal and technology research has yet to fully address. The paper opens new directions for sociolegal studies of global algorithmic systems used to counter actors responsible for severe harm and human rights violations.
Related topic
New Technologies and the Online Dimension
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Language:
English
Date:
05-07-2026
Proposed by:
ELIAMEP
Source:
Oxford Academic, 2025