Twitter, Facebook and other internet firms have ramped up their efforts over the past two years to quickly remove violent propaganda that violates their terms of service. Yet the company’s policies around graphic images are more nuanced. The pattern was similar to what was seen on Twitter after attacks last year and earlier this year in Paris and Brussels. At Facebook, those reviewers receive more specific guidance beyond the public community standards when it comes to deciding what to do with reported graphic images, a spokesperson said. Some Islamic State supporters used Twitter hashtags that were trending globally to celebrate the Nice attacks, such as #PrayForNice, #NiceAttack and #Nice, so that their tweets were shown to a wider audience, according to screenshots from the Wiesenthal Center.

Source: Hindustan Times July 16, 2016 05:03 UTC