Many thanks.
Recognizing the short time available, there's one particular Canadian messaging app, which I won't name, that became totally inundated by terrorist activity. We estimate that at one point, 80% of its user base was associated with ISIS a number of years ago. As a result, that platform was simply unable to operate in any functional way because it had been taken over by terrorist activity.
Increasingly, we see that terrorist-operated websites are a big issue. We're talking about hundreds of terrorist-operated websites, the majority of which are owned or operated, based on our assessment, by extreme far-right actors. The reason these stay up online so much is that the legal infrastructure to guide governments in helping them understand how to go about taking down these websites is very unclear.
The private sector does co-operate to some extent on terrorist-operated websites. I believe that only recently, a website that was highly likely owned or operated by American Futurist, which is an organization closely linked to designated NSO and James Mason, was removed. There are some successful efforts to have terrorist-operated websites removed. However, a lot more needs to be done. It's not just about smaller platforms but also terrorist-operated websites.
Thank you.