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Federal prosecutors bring against people that help terrorists. but pulse families allege these giants knowingly and recklessly allow terrorists to use social media in several ways. to raise money. to recruit people. the suit says without twitter, facebook and google which owns youtube or streaming videos the explosive growth of isis would not have been possible. now lawyers accuse twitter of allowing isis accounts to promote its brutal terror individual jobs elicit donations and connect with one...

Back the next day and immediately sends that request to all the people he was connected to in the past. very suspicious behavior. very obviously that it can be detected. these companies do nothing about it. that has to stop. >> there is something called the communications decency act and i want says providers cant be held liable for what users post. it protests our first amendment rights. how do you get around that? >> well let me give you and example. kind of a common sense example. you can tak...

String of attacks around the world. the department now moving highly trained teams to a number of high-profile locations around the city. many here at home feel on edge after that truck barrelled through a crowd of shoppers in berlin, germany. that incident killed 12 people. lets get right to evan perez. >> reporter: you showed pictures of one of those holiday markets in new york. thats one across the street from the cnn center, time warner center there in columbus circle. nypd says they are mov...

August and facebook has said in a similar lawsuit filed by these same lawyers that the company is trying to aggressively get rid of content that promotes or supports terrorism. its a big issue. lot of families say look if it werent for these platforms isis and its strength, its power would not be as great as it is. >> thank you. so joining me now the attorney in the case, keith altman. youre representing the three victims families who are suing these companies. you heard deborah lay it out. seem...

Today there were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland and germany. and it is only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. >> reporter: good morning, carol. donald trump put out a flury of statements in which he was expressing his concern but also condemning the attacks that weve seen and he tied both the incident in turkey as well as the incident in berlin to radical islamic terrorism even though investigations there are still ongoing. i want to read you a portion of a statemen...

Particularly picked for you. if these companies can take the time to decide on every posting i look at what ad to show to me why cant they be looking at the posting, why cant they prevent this mass reconnection that takes place. theres many, many things that these companies can do. if they put one small fraction of the money they spend on targeted -- on developing algorithms for targeted advertising towards preventing isis and others from using their instruments we wouldnt be having this problem...

Attacks on and so thats one of the big issues for law enforcement around the united states right now as they try to beef up security at these types of locations. why is this happening right now? were told that theres a lot of chatter, a lot of intelligence chatter coming in indicating efforts by isis to encourage people to carry out attacks like this. again on soft targets in western europe, in particular, but also in the united states and so thats a part of the question, part of the thing thats...

Places like that. >> okay. thats important. so online recruiting, obviously we talk about this routinely and consistently right now. how big of a problem is this right now and does this growth in terms of isis technical capabilities demonstrate that its only getting broader and stronger? >> there is absolutely no doubt that online recruitment has inflated exponentially. just looking at what kind of platforms isis and its supporters have been using, everything from deep and dark web to surface we...

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