online extremism
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Hears Concerns Of Civil Rights Leaders But Offers No Promises
A diverse group of civil rights leaders sat down in Atlanta in the U.S. on Friday for a town hall attended by Facebook officials, including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, to discuss the matter of hateful content, racist threats and misinformation that continue to plague the platform.
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Lawmakers Demand Social Network Execs Reveal What They Spend Fighting Terrorism
The head of the House subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism is on a quest to find out precisely how much money YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter are spending each to combat extremism across their myriad platforms. Since representatives of the companies seemed unequipped to answer that question during a briefing late last month, their CEOs…