As the Poway synagogue shooting unfolded, white supremacists descended on a Facebook page connected to the suspected shooter to express support and push racist propaganda.
Melissa Ryan, an extremism researcher at Hope Not Hate, an advocacy group that tries to counter racism, said that Facebook needs to recognize when extremists from other parts of the internet are congregating on its social network.
“At this point, given all we know about how extremists organize across platforms, there’s no excuse for Facebook,” Ryan said. “Facebook still sees this as a PR problem and not a human lives problem. They have to be shamed to enforce their own policies. Until they actually see this as a human-centered problem, they’re always going to be reacting instead of working to stop these things from happening.
Other Facebook accounts that still remained live were homages to previous mass shooters. One account, which used an alt-right cartoon as a profile picture, used an anagram in its profile name to refer to the accused Christchurch mosque shooter. Another profile picture featured the face of the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas photoshopped onto a video game cover.
Ryan said it’s possible for Facebook’s algorithms to detect when an unusual amount of traffic from one page is coming from a white nationalist hangout, and for a security team to see if that traffic is tied to threats. “It’s their platform, so they should be able to tell. They should be able to have triggers for messaging,” Ryan said. “If they can target me with an Instagram ad for the competitor of some product I looked at a couple of hours ago, they should be able to figure out when an account is tied to an attack.”
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