Facebook Is Answering Some Hard Questions, Starting With How It Fights Terrorism

Topic suggestions for Facebook's Hard Questions series can be emailed to hardquestions@fb.com

Facebook kicked off a series of explanatory posts it calls Hard Questions with a detailed look at how the social network combats terrorism, penned by director of global policy management Monika Bickert and counterterrorism policy manager Brian Fishman.

Vice president for public policy and communications Elliot Schrage announced the series in a Newsroom post, saying that upcoming topics will include:

  • After a person dies, what should happen to their online identity?
  • How aggressively should social media companies monitor and remove controversial posts and images from their platforms? Who gets to decide what’s controversial, especially in a global community with a multitude of cultural norms?
  • Who gets to define what’s false news and what’s simply controversial political speech?
  • Is social media good for democracy?
  • How can we use data for everyone’s benefit, without undermining people’s trust?
  • How should young internet users be introduced to new ways to express themselves in a safe environment?

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