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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

Testimony

Questioner: Gary PetersWitness: Chris Cox

Harm: TerrorismHarm: Hate speechDesign feature: Friend/Account Suggestions
Q. · Question

Gary Peters

A. · Response

Chris Cox

QuestionPeters presents a physical poster showing that Facebook auto-generated a home page for the Aryan Brotherhood white-supremacist prison gang that stayed live for 12 years despite years of external warnings, and asks whether this auto-generation feature makes it easier for extremist groups to recruit, and whether taking 12 years to remove it is acceptable.

ResponseCox cites a 97% terrorist-content pre-detection rate but does not directly justify the 12-year delay in this specific case, says Meta "would not have put this page up ourselves" (attributing it to the auto-generation feature rather than a deliberate act), and says he hasn't personally seen this specific example.