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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

Testimony

Questioner: Tom CarperWitness: Chris Cox

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: TerrorismHarm: Hate speech
Q. · Question

Tom Carper

A. · Response

Chris Cox

QuestionCiting Meta's own reported figures — 1,000+ identified militarized social movements, 270 white supremacist organizations, 2.3 million pieces of organized-hate content removed in Q2 2022 alone — Carper asks what more Meta can do to address the broader threat of these organizing groups.

ResponseCox cites 350 dedicated experts working with law enforcement on terrorist/violence-inducing-conspiracy-network identification, and gives Meta's current hate-speech prevalence figure of 0.02% (down from 50% eighteen months earlier).