What Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Can Do Now to Stop Terrorism and Hate Online
Article/Op-Ed in CNN Business
March 18, 2019
Robert McKenzie authored an article for CNN Business, regarding the actions popular social media platforms can take to curtail terrorism.
The attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand bring into sharp relief a troubling pattern of global white nationalist terrorism against Muslims. The New Zealand assailant's 87-page manifesto is replete with white supremacist propaganda that was shared across the internet. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are now left scrambling to stop the spread of this hateful rhetoric as it continues to get shared across their platforms.