Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
"Not long after a man gunned down dozens and killed at least 50 worshipers inside two New Zealand mosques while wearing a body-mounted camera to record the carnage, the video quickly spread on YouTube — it was repeatedly taken down and then posted again, with uploaders able to work around the video platform's artificial intelligence detection tools. Experts on online radicalization and terrorist content said that social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google must do more to combat it. 'Reports say Facebook needed 17 minutes to remove the livestream. ... The technology to prevent this is available. Social media firms have made a decision not to invest in adopting it,' Counter Extremism Project Director David Ibsen said in a statement."
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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