Fighting White Supremacist Terror on Social Media
Jane Lytvenenko, BuzzFeed News reporter, talks about the difference in how social media platforms respond to Islamophobic hate speech versus other forms of extremism and Ryan Mac, a senior tech reporter for BuzzFeed News, and Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, and former FBI special agent countering domestic terrorism, look at the extent to which social media sites can and want to police hate content.
"One of the communities recently banned on Reddit because of the New Zealand incident was “Watch People Die”… it had videos and images of people dying or right before they died, Reddit had allowed that community for something like 7 years on the site," says @RMac18.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019
"What researchers told me is that they really see social media platforms respond to news of the day," says @JaneLytv on why networks haven't cracked down in Islamophobic content. "When it comes to targeting marginalized communities, the companies have been much slower to act."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019
"Part of the reason we use this lexicon is to create a different image of the threats they pose, rather than looking objectively at how many people are actually killed and injured by the different terrorist groups." 2/2 https://t.co/1x5DAE6rO9
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 19, 2019
