white nationalist and white separatist material as well as that from international extremist groups. In March, it expanded its definition of prohibited content to include U.S. The page lists the user's work as 'Al Qaidah' and education as 'University Master Bin Laden' and 'School Terrorist Afghanistan.'įacebook has been working to limit the spread of extremist material on its service, so far with mixed success.

They uncovered one page for 'Mohammed Atta' with an iconic photo of one of the al-Qaida adherents, who was a hijacker in the September 11 attacks. The new filing also found that users' pages promoting extremist groups remain easy to find with simple searches using their names. In this case, it may be helping the extremist groups because it allows users to like the pages, potentially providing a list of sympathizers for recruiters. It scrapes employment information from users' pages to create pages for businesses. The updated complaint scrutinizes one function that is meant to help business networking.

While we cannot catch every one, we remain vigilant in this effort.'įacebook has a number of functions that auto-generate pages from content posted by users. Auto-generated pages are not like normal Facebook pages as people can't comment or post on them and we remove any that violate our policies.

In response to a request for comment, a Facebook spokesperson told the AP: 'Our priority is detecting and removing content posted by people that violates our policy against dangerous individuals and organizations to stay ahead of bad actors. One page listed as a 'political ideology' is titled 'I love Islamic state.' It features an IS logo inside the outlines of Facebook's famous thumbs-up icon. The filing obtained by the AP identifies almost 200 auto-generated pages - some for businesses, others for schools or other categories - that directly reference the Islamic State group and dozens more representing al-Qaida and other known groups. The new details come from an update of a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission that the National Whistleblower Center plans to file this week. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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