Facebook, Google and Twitter executives told lawmakers that they've gotten better and faster at detecting and removing violent extremist content on their social media platforms.
Facebook, Google and Twitter executives told members of Congress on Wednesday that they’ve gotten better and faster at detecting and removing violent extremist content on their social media platforms in the face of hatred-fueled mass shootings.
The lawmakers want to know what the companies are doing to remove hate speech from their platforms and how they are coordinating with law enforcement.“We are experiencing a surge of hate. Social media is used to amplify that hate,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the panel’s senior Democrat.
After the February 2018 shooting that killed 17 people at a high school in Florida, Google began to proactively reach out to law enforcement authorities to see how they could better coordinate, Slater said. Before that shooting, the suspect posted on a YouTube page, “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” authorities said.
Facebook appears to have made little progress, for example, on its automated systems for removing prohibited content glorifying groups such as Islamic State in the four months since the Associated Press detailed how Facebook pages auto-generated for businesses are aiding Middle East extremists and white supremacists in the United States. The new details come from an update of a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission that the National Whistleblower Center plans to file this week.
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