What Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can do now to stop terrorism and hate online | By Robert L. McKenzie for CNNBusiness Perspectives
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Robert L. McKenzie is a director and senior fellow at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, and adjunct assistant professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. .leftside-floating-image { width:100%; display:block; margin:0 auto 1.5rem; } @media screen and { .leftside-floating-image { float:left; width:50%; max-width: 200px; display:block; margin:0 1.5rem 1rem 0; } } The attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand bring into sharp relief a troubling pattern of global white nationalist terrorism against Muslims. The New Zealand assailant's 87-page manifesto is replete with white supremacist propaganda that was shared across the internet.
— Drew Harwell March 15, 2019 Facebook announced it has removed 1.5 million videos of the attack. Twitter said on Friday it was working to remove the video from its platform. YouTube said it removes violent and graphic content as soon as it's made aware of it. 8chan said it is responding to law enforcement. But there are steps these companies can take now to help mitigate the damage and prevent terrorist attacks like this from happening in the future.
The truth is that we may never know the answers to these questions. What's more, there are real challenges to curtailing online hate: namely, there are no current laws on the books to adequately address domestic terrorism. Labeling those who use social media and other technologies to incite violence as domestic terrorists would give tech companies the legal leverage they need to take down their content or block them altogether.
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