Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

QuestionCiting Meta's own 2020 transparency report figure of 5.9 million illegal drug-sale postings found on Facebook and Instagram — 453 times the volume that got the dark-web marketplace Silk Road shut down — Scott asks how many postings are going undetected and why Meta remains operational by comparison.

ResponseCox points to Meta's quarterly transparency reporting rather than estimating how much drug-sale content goes undetected, and does not address the Silk Road comparison directly.