Speaking Appearences
Eradicate Hate 2023 - Tech in Action
Tom Thorley moderates a conversation highlighting the proliferation of online hate that has dramatically escalated the challenges of curtailing the messaging that foments hate-fueled violence, while protecting privacy, free speech, and other civil liberties. These panelists discuss efforts by tech and civil society to address this critical issue and how generational AI may impact the future.
GIFCT Global Summit 2023 - Incident Response Protocols and Current Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Incidents
Tom Thorley moderates a conversation with representatives from the European Union and the Christchurch Call’s crisis response protocols and the United States National Security Council focused on how different sectors and organizations approach their work to respond to the crisis of a terrorist attack. This conversation explored the role of GIFCT’s Incident Response Framework alongside other international crisis response protocols, reflections from recent crisis incidents, and approaches to human rights due diligence when engaging in the work of crisis response, both online and offline.
GIFCT Global Summit 2023 - The Opportunity of Technology: Developing Technical Tools for Countering TVEC
Tom Thorley moderates a discussion with Jigsaw, Meta and Tech Against Terrorism to discuss GIFCT's current working with expert partners to develop greater technical tooling for member companies to support the utility of our leading cross-platform technical solution, the hash-sharing database. This conversation presented these tech trials to the audience and why our technical efforts are vital to GIFCT’s ability to advance its mission.
DON’T BE TERRIFIED! #AskAnExpert | Tom Thorley : He knows counterterrorism and has got our backs.
"…Hey, I have an idea. Let's prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms. Okay, ready? Go. I know that that's a big mouthful and none of us can do it mostly, but Tom Thorley is on a team and they're doing it. Tom is the director of technology at the global internet forum to counter terrorism. His background is interesting. He worked for the British government's signal intelligence agency. So this is Tom's Jam.…" Listen Here
Trust in Tech, Episode 10: Counter-terrorism on Tech Platforms w/ GIFCT Director of Technology Tom Thorley
Welcome to the Trust in Tech podcast, a project by the Integrity Institute — a community-driven think tank which advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet, powered by our community of integrity professionals.
In this episode, Institute member Talha Baig is in conversation with Tom Thorley of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). The Forum was established to foster technical collaboration among member companies, advance relevant research, and share knowledge with smaller platforms. Listen Here
All Tech Is Human Library Podcast Series #8 | Tom Thorley
In the eighth conversation of a sixteen-part All Tech is Human Library Podcast interview series, Director of Technology at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Tom Thorley joins David Ryan Polgar for a conversation about how we can create a more resilient internet and world through increased trust and safety measures. How can we all hold platforms accountable in the fight against extremism? Listen Here
Eradicate Hate 2022 - Tech Against Terror
From the Eradicate Hate Summit 2022 - How the tech sector can collaborate to prevent terrorism online and what the human rights implications of that collaboration may be.
Eradicate Hate 2022 - A Whole of Ecosystem Approach How Tech Platforms Identify, Address And Prevent Violent Extremism
From the Eradicate Hate Summit 2022 - How the why the whole of society is required to effectively address violent extremism and how we can effectively coordinate.
Crisis Response Protocols and GIFCT's Incident Response Framework
From GIFCT's Global Summit 2022 at Google's Moffet Park Campus in Sunnyvale
Cyber5 - Combating Terrorist Messaging on the Open Internet
Nisos's team are joined by Tom Thorley, the Director of Technology at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). We discuss the mission of GIFCT and how it’s evolved over the last five years, with particular interest on violent terrorist messaging across different social media platforms. We also discuss the technical approaches to countering terrorism between platforms and how their organization accounts for human rights while conducting their mission. Listen Here
i2 Coalition - Addressing Harmful Content Online Including CSAM
From i2 Coalitions' Best Practices Speaker Series aimed at showcasing the work that is being done throughout the industry, and how we can work together as an industry to make the Internet better for everyone.
The Colab - The Future of Responsible Platform Governance, An Interview with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Director of Technology: Tom Thorley
Tom Thorley sat down with the Middlebury Institute and answered many questions about the GIFCT. GIFCT stops global terrorists from exploiting digital platforms! We talked mainly about their hashing database, censorship, and responsible platform governance that is mindful of human rights! Listen Here