November 12th, 2018, By Lisa Vaas
Monika Bickert, Facebook’s global head of policy management, and Brian Fishman, head of counterterrorism policy said in a post on Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had recently discovered an alleged IS supporter warning others that it’s gotten tougher to push propaganda on the platform.
As detailed in a criminal complaint, one of the alleged terrorist/sympathizer’s suggestions for fellow propagandists was to try to take over legitimate social media accounts that had been hijacked: to act like wolves pulling on sheepskins to escape from Facebook’s notice, as it were.
Facebook’s continued work on tackling terrorist propaganda is bearing fruit.
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Terrorists told to hijack social media accounts to spread propaganda
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