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Social media link to attacks poses dilemma

Filtering out terrorists on networks like Facebook and Twitter a challenging task, both technically and from a civil liberties perspective

Published Tue, Dec 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM

San Francisco

PRESSURE is growing on social networks to play a bigger role in finding and weeding out jihadists and others looking to recruit members and plot deadly attacks.

But it's more complicated than it sounds: networks like Facebook and Twitter support free expression, and filtering out bad actors is challenging from both a technical and civil liberties perspective.

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