We can’t expect Facebook to stop terrorists

in the news | November 25, 2014

The Guardian

Richard Barrett:

With about 5bn postings a day across a global user base of over 1.3 billion people, the task for Facebook in ensuring that it does not carry inappropriate content of any kind, not just that related to terrorism, is clearly well beyond the capacity of humans.

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