DUBAI: The Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, Etidal, and messaging platform Telegram, together removed more than 7 million online items of extremist content and shut down 1,554 extremist channels between April and June.
Etidal’s team monitored digital content broadcast in Arabic by three terrorist organizations: Al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham and Daesh.
The majority of the removed content was posted by Al-Qaeda (3,511,979 pieces of content across 535 extremist channels), followed by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (1,951,527 pieces of content across 403 extremist channels) and Daesh (1,744,304 pieces of content across 616 channels).
This quarter marked a period of intense activity in terms of broadcasting extremist content for Al-Qaeda for the first time since February 2022.
April 18 witnessed the highest activity with 615,506 extremist items posted and 81 extremist channels established.
Etidal has been collaborating with Telegram since February 2022 to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism by reviewing online content posted in Arabic. During this time, the two organizations have together removed 28,233,979 extremist online items and closed 10,218 channels.
