Facebook Newsroom Blog The Anti-Terrorism Measures of the WebsiteByNitish Singh-April 24, 2018.037 Monika Bickert Vp Global Policy Management and Brian Fishman Global Head of Facebook’s Counter-Terrorism Policy revealed that the social platform has taken steps to keep terrorists away. Facebook is actively scanning new and old content that could be sensitive and terrorist related. More than 600,000 posts related to terrorism were deleted by Facebook in Q1 2018. With the Internet being more open to the public, people from all over the world can communicate. Yet terrorists can also be an effective platform to promote their cause or intimidate civilians. Facebook’s Monika Bickert and Brian Fishman recently written a blog post on how the anti-terrorism policies of the social media platform work and how it prevents sensitive content from appearing on the website. .038.038 According to the Facebook Newsroom Blog, the company describes terrorism as “Any non-governmental organization engaged in premeditated acts of violence against persons or property to threaten a civilian population government or international organization with a view to achieving a political religious or ideological objective.” The website flags it as terrorist material if any content seeks to achieve individual or group goals through abuse. Yet Facebook’s antiterrorism policies do not include governments. This represents a general academic or legal opinion that nation-states can in some circumstances choose to use abuse. In such instances, only graphic material is deleted due to the graphic violence policy that extends to all individuals or groups like governments. Facebook policy forbids terrorists from making full use of the site and any known members of terrorist organizations are barred from the platform immediately. The recent updates to Facebook’s implementation of anti-terrorism include concentrating on large-scale terrorist groups such as Isis al-Qaeda and their allies. In June last year Facebook rolled out new algorithms and revised their success in November. The website claims that they have been able to quickly and on a large scale remove propaganda messages from such organisations. Currently the social media platform has 200 people working on the anti-terrorism team and over time more members are set to join. Facebook counter-terrorism metrics are still under development but in Q1 2018 the blog provided us with data on their enforcement against Isis al-Qaeda and its affiliates. More than 1.9 million pieces of Isis and al-Qaeda material that were supposed to be circulated for educational or counter-speech purposes for terrorist awareness were deleted.