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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security
Questioner: Gary PetersWitness: Chris Cox
Gary Peters
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.