The BL: Facebook accused of helping promote ISIS, al-Qaeda
Facebook has faced several complaints about its functions that inadvertently help promoting extremist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda, but the company appears to have made little progress on the issue. Gregory Waters, one of the authors of an extensive report by the Counter Extremism Project, calling on tech companies to remove known extremist and terrorist material online, said the project “has laid bare Facebook’s inability or unwillingness to efficiently address extremist content on their site,” according to the Telegraph. “The failure to effectively police its platform has allowed Facebook to become a place where extensive IS [ISIS] supporting networks exist, propaganda is disseminated, people are radicalized, and new supporters are recruited,” Waters added.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.