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“Terrorists Are Still Recruiting on Facebook, Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurances”: Bloomberg

This is a guest post by Jeremy Leggett. Views are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MyGridGB or Dr Andrew Crossland.


At least a dozen U.S.-designated terror groups use Facebook, Bloomberg discovers, and when banned soon reappear with slight modifications.
JL: Yet again, Facebook and its boss overstate what they can do ameliorate the social harm that spills off their platform. In recent public appearances, Zuckerberg has said that AI is turning the tide against terrorist use of the site. The most rudimentary of investigations by Bloomberg journalists shows that this is not the case.

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