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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

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Questioner: Gary Peters

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: TerrorismDesign feature: Content Algorithm
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Gary Peters

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionPeters asks how many Meta employees specifically research extreme content and whether that research covers algorithmic promotion of such content.

ResponseMeta says it has 350+ specialists on dangerous-individuals/organizations content and that internal research (including into algorithmic dynamics) informed the 2019 ban on white nationalism/supremacism, without providing a specific headcount answering the exact question asked.