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Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation

Testimony

Questioner: Lizzie FletcherWitness: Mark Zuckerberg

Harm: TerrorismHarm: Hate speech
Q. · Question

Lizzie Fletcher

A. · Response

Mark Zuckerberg

QuestionFletcher asks whether a federal legal standard for defining domestic terror/hate organizations, similar to the State Department's foreign-terrorist-organization designation, would help Meta better track and remove harmful domestic content.

ResponseZuckerberg says he's not sure a federal standard is needed, noting Meta already classifies domestic white-supremacist organizations, militias, and QAnon-linked networks at the same severity level as foreign terrorist organizations.