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.
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