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Terrorist content so that we could all find and remove it faster. >> all of this comes amid an nbc exclusive report on facebooks influence and how it ignored repeated calls about content on the platform and chose growth over protecting the users. for more on this, im joined by clint watts, he testified in todays hearing and an expert on the rise of threats on social media. hes a former fbi special agent. a senior fellow and a national security analyst for msnbc. clint, first of all, lets just ta...

Laughing stock and a joke instead of using those hours to maybe, i dont know, take the motorcade to the embassy and sign a book offering condolences to the country that lost five of its citizens in a terror attack or maybe convene a national security council meeting and talk about how to combat the spread of terrorist content on the internet or, i dont know, pick up the phone and call the governor. we understand this afternoon, the 3:00 hour that he had done that but hadnt done that this morning...

What we do know is that isis has been losing ground and theyve been calling for these types of attacks, when you look at their propaganda and messaging, theyre calling for people to carry out these low tech style attacks, thats a shift from previous terrorist tactics. and you also know that youve seen the proliferation of their messaging on online platforms. i was just on the hill today about russian interfering on these platforms, but also extremist and terrorist content. this is the trend that...

About cracking down on this terrorist content online, on platforms that are helping give people instructions, helping with propaganda and to help incite this radicalization that were seeing predominantly in europe and here in the united states as well. >> trace: we learned a couple of fascinating things from catherine herridge, one, that this was for all intents and purposes like the cooker bomb. and isis has claimed responsibility, which is awfully fast. do you think theres any kind of connecti...

Cars. you wont be able to rent one just yet, darn. the deal with wamo, googles driverless car company, is for maintenance only. it will handle things like oil changes and tire rotations. the arrangement is good for wamo in two ways. asis serves as a home base for any test runs in the future. it will allow wamo to expand more easily when driverless tech does finally hit the road. and speaking of tech companies, they are facing increasing pressure to fight terrorism on their site. four of the bi...

♪ rob: google promising to take a tougher stance on extremist content online. heather: carley shimkus with 24/7, 115 here now. how the tech giant is cracking down. what are they doing? >> calls tore fox news deck companies to stop the terrorist content online are at all-time high. google is responding with a brand new plan. a google executive released a statement on the subject saying while we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content that violates our policies, the uncom...

Will also try to reach tout to potential isis recruits through online ads and redirect them towards antiterrorist videos in an attempted to change their mind about joining. that sounds like fantastic idea. theresa may blaming tech companies for not doing enough to stop the spread of terrorist content online. rob: sure. switching gears here. collin kaepernick needs a job. he is not making it easier. >> there is he kneeling during the national anthem. criticizing police officers once again. he res...

Facebook expanded the team. the mix of jobs includes 150 academics and analysts. facebook using cutting edge like artificial intelligence to mine the data to find this stuff. the company has said it wants to be hostile to terrorist content. a lot of complaints that facebook is too slow to take propaganda down and the terrorists can hide conversations. a lot of the social media companies have been under fire for law enforcement because this is how terrorists talk. via social media. it is all part...

Again. tech has been on a tear this year, driving the markets to records, an 18% spike. recently, investors worry they may have run too high. facebook, amazon, apple, netflix all fell, dragging all three indices lower. we could see a rebound today, though, because futures are a little bit higher, so a little tumble in tech, maybe there will be a bounceback. there is a new in-demand job at facebook, counterterrorism specialist. the company greatly expanded its team that combats terrorism, inclu...

To coordinate attacks. and law enforcement wants access, but facebook, google and apple lobby against giving authorities a peek. they say it hurts the privacy of customers, not terrorists. facebook and twitter also, of course, condemn terrorist content on their sites, telling cnn theyre working to curb terrorism and warn of attacks. however, they offer no specific plans. all right, a strong response from the british prime minister after yet another terror attack on her soil. >> they are bound ...