Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube team up to stop terrorist propaganda by Justin Carissimo.
Justin’s report is true, at least in the sense that Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube are collaborating to censor “terrorist propaganda.”
Justin’s post also propagates the “fake news” that online content from terrorists “…threaten our national security and public safety….”
Really? You would think after all these years of terrorist propaganda, there would be evidence to support that claim.
True enough, potential terrorists can meet online, but “recruitment” is a far different tale than reading online terrorist content. Consider ISIS and the Lonely Young American, a tale told to support the idea of online recruiting, but is one of the better refutations of that danger.
It’s not hard to whistle up alleged social science studies of online “terrorist propaganda” but the impacts of that so-called propaganda, are speculation at best, when not actually fantasies of the authors.
“Fake News” warriors should challenge the harmful terrorist propaganda narrative as well as those that are laughably false (denying climate change for example).