"It’s no longer possible to brush off such events as isolated incidents or to minimize the role of social media companies in enabling them. Tech companies can’t be allowed to shrug off the violence and social division abetted by their products as if it all would have happened anyway— as if they’re as blameless as the phone company when crooks make a phone call. 'The global network of white nationalist extremism depends on the framework of social media,' said David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project. 'The inaction of social media platforms in addressing this problem serves to perpetuate it.'"