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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security
Questioner: Maggie HassanWitness: Brian Boland
Harm: TerrorismDesign feature: Live Streaming
Q. · Question
Maggie Hassan
A. · Response
Brian Boland
QuestionCiting horrifically livestreamed terrorist attacks that inspire copycat violence, Hassan asks whether social media companies can quickly identify and stop terrorist content from spreading in real time.
ResponseBoland says Meta has invested significant AI resources in detecting livestreamed attacks and has improved since Christchurch, but calls it an inherently hard problem.