On Facebook offered to fight terrorists, “zalaykav” them – REGNUM

Washington, January 22, 2016, 17:27 – REGNUM To fight terrorist propaganda in social networks can be, leaving their pages the positive comments, I’m sure COO of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg . Such a statement she made on January 21, during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In connection with the active promotion of representatives of terrorist organizations, such as the “Islamic state” Sandberg proposed a new method of confrontation ekstrimistam. According to the Chief Operating Officer of the social network, you need to on the pages of the terrorists came by users who want to fight the militants, and some of the commentators have to leave positive messages, while others put the “likes” on these messages.

Thus, Sheryl Sandberg actually shifts nearly all the responsibility and measures to counter the representatives of terrorist organizations on the users themselves.

As a confirmation of the validity of this method of struggle against extremists operating officer of Facebook has given an example, describing the German users. Then they made literally “attack huskies” on page neo-Nazis. The group, which was taken by a lot of records with calls for hatred and intolerance to false, «remained solid tolerance and hope» , said Sandberg.

IA REGNUM recalls in 2014, US President Barack Obama has met with representatives of the IT-industry, namely with heads of Google, Facebook, Netflux, Box and Dropbox, Palantir Technologies. The main topic for discussion was the government’s program of spying on the World Wide Web, as well as intelligence gathering and privacy. Later, similar meetings were repeated several times.

For example, January 8 this year, Reuters reported that representatives of administration of US President Barack Obama planned to hold a large-scale meeting with the delegations of the largest and most influential social networks and IT-corporations. For example, on Facebook Media confirmed their participation in the event.

The reason for the meeting was the concern of the US government in connection with the frequent use of social networks by terrorists as the main channels of its propaganda campaign. It is known that at the meeting, in addition to representatives of the president, was scheduled to present the NSC staff, the FBI, intelligence structures.

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