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Facebook tests ‘extremist content’ warning on platform to fight radicalization

By:  Elizabeth Culliford

Facebook Inc is starting to warn some users they might have seen “extremist content” on the social media site, the company said on Thursday.

Screenshots shared on Twitter showed a notice asking “Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?” and another that alerted users “you may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently.” Both included links to “get support.”

The world’s largest social media network has long been under pressure from lawmakers and civil rights groups to combat extremism on its platforms, including U.S. domestic movements involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when groups supporting former President Donald Trump tried to stop the U.S. Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the November election…read more.

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