Photo: BloombergLondon: Facebook has been accused of putting thousands of Islamic State (ISIS) supporters in contact with one another via the social networking giant’s “suggested friends” tool, according to a media report. It sets out to reveal the extent to which the social media algorithm has helped the ISIS terrorist network. Critics say that the feature, designed to match Facebook users based on common interests, actively helps terrorists to regroup and build networks. Many of the extremists were recommended to the CEP’s own researchers as friends after they viewed some of the extremist profiles. Facebook says it has invested in artificial intelligence and human moderators to identify and remove extremist content.

Source: Mint May 08, 2018 02:37 UTC