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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 facebook's influence and how it ignored repeated calls about content on the platform and chose growth over protecting the users. for more on this, i'm joined by clint watts, he testified in today's hearing and an expert on the rise of threats on social media. he's a former fbi special agent. a senior fellow and a national security analyst for msnbc. clint, first of all, let's just talk about this. facebook has made some moves and i think twitter discussed today some moves to c...

Laughing stock and a joke instead of using those hours to maybe, i don't 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 don't know, pick up the phone and call the governor. we understand this afternoon, the 3:00 hour that he had done that but hadn't done that this morning. i don't know how to differentiate the obliteration of norms that are simply a disgrace and the ...

What we do know is that isis has been losing ground and they've been calling for these types of attacks, when you look at their propaganda and messaging, they're calling for people to carry out these low tech style attacks, that's a shift from previous terrorist tactics. and you also know that you've 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 we have been seeing as they lose ground, as they start spreading their message online and aroun...

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 we're 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 there's any kind of connection or link in those two pieces of information? >> sure. it's fast. i'm going to leave to it the fo...

Cars. you won't be able to rent one just yet, darn. the deal with wamo, google's 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 biggest names are actually banding together to do just that. twitter, facebook, youtube, and microso...