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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

Testimony

Questioner: Gary Peters

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

Gary Peters

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionPeters presses in writing on why Facebook auto-generates pages for banned hate groups, why the Aryan Brotherhood page took twelve years to remove, and why an auto-generated Proud Boys page created on January 6, 2021 remained up.

ResponseMeta acknowledges an "auto generation issue" affecting "a small number of pages," says the flagged pages were removed, but does not directly explain the twelve-year delay or specifically address the Proud Boys page raised in the question.