Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

QuestionCiting the years-long unchecked spread of QAnon and Zuckerberg's own 2018 statement that unchecked engagement optimization favors sensationalist content, Peters asks Cox whether engagement-focused recommendation algorithms inevitably promote extreme content that hasn't yet been formally labeled violative.

ResponseCox says QAnon is now labeled a "violence-inducing network" and banned, and reiterates that Meta works to remove terrorism/extremism content and publishes results, without directly addressing whether engagement-optimized algorithms inevitably promote such content before it's labeled.