The Legislation and Definitions Project
GIFCT's resource for practitioners seeking to learn more about how terrorism and violent extremism are defined and legislated globally.
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) works to ensure that tech companies and the broader multistakeholder community are equipped to counter the terrorist and violent extremist threat as it manifests online. GIFCT’s efforts, and those of its community of tech company members, in part rely on and are facilitated by government and intergovernmental organizations that both define terrorism and violent extremism and legislate terrorist and violent extremist content.
The Legislation and Definitions Project seeks to help stakeholders understand the complementary and sometimes conflicting nature of both government definitions of terrorism and violent extremism and the growing legislative framework that regulates tech companies’ actions as they pertain to terrorist and violent extremist content. Given the lack of universally agreed upon definitions of terrorism and violent extremism and the risks that might be present when relying solely on government designation lists, the project also provides strategies for tech companies that seek to action terrorist and violent extremist content on their platforms.
GIFCT does not create definitions of, or legislation on, terrorism or violent extremism, nor does it advise member platforms on how they should or should not designate certain groups or actors.