Facebook to establish a global counter-terrorism group monitors and removing terrorist information

According to foreign media reports, in order to combat the Islamic militants that use its network, Facebook has quietly stepped up efforts to prevent terrorist information and videos, experts believe it may be the network operator in the United States Government against terrorist organizations, major initiatives and recruiting battle.

Facebook global policy development and management Monika·bikete Manager, content business executives (Monica Bickert) in a media interview, provided so far of the company's most detailed to date on the company's Web site to identify and remove details of terrorist material. As described as Ed Bickert, Facebook has established its own counter-terrorism group, at least five offices around the world, and has a team of experts familiar with the dozens of languages. As part of the Facebook community business team, the counter-terrorism group of Facebook users of other terrorists and using the social media network reports around the clock to answer, promptly remove terrorist-related material, and quickly find the corresponding account number to deal with.

Ed Bickert said in an interview, "If the user accounts we know that support for terrorism, and we are going to be deleted," but need to verify the situation in order to find accounts linked to terrorist organizations, and remove all illegal content. Facebook now has 1.5 billion users, 70% for the United States and Canada users outside. Ed Bickert said the social network is not only to discover the openly acknowledged was a member from the Islamic countries information or post content, but also to find information from other terrorist organizations.

Facebook is different from other Web sites have been developed by community standards policy and prohibit the "support" of terrorist organizations and "praise" the rhetoric of the leaders of terrorist organizations or "apologia" for acts of violence and terrorism to express content. Ed Bickert said, "If a terrorist attack on a global scale, someone shared the event message and said, ' I think it was great, ' or they mocked victims of the terrorist attacks, or celebrating the terrorist attacks, which would be in violation of our policies, we will be deleted. ” 

Facebook and other social networks, companies have felt from the United States and other Western Government counter-terrorism officials are increasing pressure, United States Congressman and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Hillary Clinton), have called for such social networking companies more actively to prevent propaganda of Islamic organizations and Government. However, these social networking companies to boycott some of the proposals, claiming that it was asking them to engage in censorship. The Republican Senator from North Carolina, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee lichade·Boer (Richard Burr) and daianna·feiensitan, a Democratic Senator from California (Diane Feinstein) instituted a clause, called on social media networks to United States law enforcement agencies to report on their network "all terrorist activities."

News from Congress, a provision has been added to the Senate Intelligence Bill last summer, but the terms and conditions on behalf of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and other social media and technology companies, including Yahoo's business associations was cancelled again after intense lobbying.