Former extremist teams up with Facebook to help users avoid the recruitment 'rabbit hole'

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Former extremist teams up with Facebook to help users avoid the recruitment 'rabbit hole' | LucyCormack

The world's largest social media platform will target Australians who search for specific words and terms linked to violent extremism in an effort to combat terrorism and hate organisations.

"A lot of the young people [in extremist groups] have trauma in their background, some come from really dysfunctional families, some even come from good families but they are looking for somewhere to voice their anger...so they go online and people recruit them," he said. "At EXIT we offer support to people so they can move away. Usually we talk online first, then we suggest a phone conversation and try and get in between them and [recruiters]."Twitter

While some of the changes to the social media platform were introduced before the Christchurch shooting massacre in March, the incident and the way social media was used has had a strong influence on the platform's approach to countering online extremism.

 

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LucyCormack The former extremists will target terms such as 'jihad'. They will? Won't they?

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