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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

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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.