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Under increasing pressure from overreacting and fearful bureaucrats, it seems that the big social media companies -- Facebook, Twitter...

Administration was so aggressive about terrorist content and threats to the homeland and al awlaki, why are threats to the capitol viewed differently than threats from overseas? >> threats from overseas reminds everyone of two towers that fell and a part of the pentagon that went down and all the deaths at that day. its a scar the united states hasnt totally healed even now. domestic terror is very much on the watch list and has been. tim mcveigh, remember him? that was during clin clins preside...

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Now 99% of the terrorist content that we take down, our ai systems identify and remove before anyone sees it. >> a lot of tech insiders have been saying today was going to kick off a grand facebook apology tour but zuckerbergs attitude today, it looks like the real m.o. here is to commit to doing better in the future without actually committin admio doing anything wrong in the past. >> harris: that is the furthering of the talking point if my recollection of the previous hearings. despite contro...

Launched by the christchurch new zealand shooting, one of the three shootings linked to 8 chan. in el paso, texas and the synagogue shooting as well. >> i think there are two different solutions that are effective in confronting online radicalization and number one, insurance robust public and private partnerships between tech companies, social media companies and the government and number 2, encouraging collaboration between tech companies themselves. facebook is a good example of this in a con...

Congress a little bit ago. >> one of the areas i mentioned earlier was terrorist content, for example. we now have ai systems that can identify and take down 99% of the al qaeda and isis related content in the system before a human even flags it to us. we need to do more of that. >> dana: that was a year ago, he was talking about that. should these companies be held liable for having this content or them or so diffuse impossible to get a handle on? >> it is a huge challenge. anyone who thinks th...

Made recently with the facebook face feed and algorithm. can you explain exactly what you changed and what was your thinking behind it? >> yeah. so, in terms of content overall, we have a community of 2 1/2 billion people. the vast majority of what people share is good. but then there are these cases where we really need to prevent people from spreading terrorist content or hate speech or bullying people or doing really terrible things. and that falls into two categories. so one are things that ...

He loved everyone. he was help -- please, if you know anything, dont let just let him be a number. please come forward. jillian: take a look at your screen. police are hoping this picture of harters truck could lead to more tips. unclear why they were fighting. facebook under fire accused of helping terrorists connect with each other. a report by the non-productivit -- recruitnew me world. one researcher says they were bombarded with pro-isis friends connections after connecting with one extremi...

>> the internet is growing in importance around the world. in peoples lives, and i think its inevitable that there will need to be some regulation. my position is not that there should be no regulation but i also think you have to be careful about what regulation you put in place. >> bret: some on the counterterrorism committee calling zuckerberg a liar tonight. they say his statements about cleaning up extremism from the social media site are just not true. correspondent gillian turner looks at...

Advertising revenue based on this type of social media engagement, im not sure what the -- the insentive is and that is why it is so -- the platform is so slow to address this problem. >> it is such a financial hit and they dont want to come up with a solution because the bottom line would be impacted too much. >> or they want to find a solution that is most narrow possible solution that deals with the kind of public outcry and public demand or the pressure that they might be getting from legisl...