Facebook had its priorities on censoring content.
Via Daily Mail:
Facebook left horrific Islamic State videos on its site for three years, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Despite repeated criticism of the social media giant for failing to protect users, the infamous Cubs Of The Caliphate film posted in March 2015 was one of several that could still be viewed until last week.
Facebook claims to have cracked down on hate content but the video and other sickening IS propaganda was not removed until a detailed complaint from the Mail. Thousands of users have watched the video, which shows a young boy – pictured – shooting dead a teenage hostage.
Other IS material which was on Facebook for over two years includes masked terrorists carrying out mass beheadings of Christians and knifemen warning: ‘You will not have safety, even in your dreams, until you embrace Islam.’
A bomb tutorial used by Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was repeatedly uploaded.
Experts fear there is a deliberate attempt to use Facebook to target potential British jihadi recruits. Former UK counter-terrorism chief Sir Ivor Roberts said the failure to take down the videos was ‘chilling and inexcusable’.
He called on the Home Secretary to take urgent action and suggested that a major factor is Facebook’s refusal to use technology that prevents extremist videos from being reposted repeatedly.
Despite an avalanche of criticism over its alleged failure to protect users, Facebook has recently trumpeted its ‘significant strides’ in finding and removing large amounts of Islamist propaganda. It insists the ‘vast majority’ of terrorist propaganda is removed automatically, without the need for someone to report it first.
But last month the Mail found it easy to access a string of horrific videos, including the one in which a boy, aged around ten, executes a 19-year-old Israeli-Arab accused of being a Mossad agent.