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ILLUSTRATION BY FÉLIX DECOMBAT

May 14, 2018

Edited by

Jef Muskus

and Julie Alnwick

Businessweek.com

CONTENTS

○ Corporate satellites

need more guidance

○ How Flipkart’s

turnaround attracted a

Walmart investment

○ Fresher food from old

shipping containers

supporters with everything from gruesome pho-

tos of death caused by their enemies to quotidian

news about social services they ofer. Several can be

found simply by typing their names into Facebook’s

search bar in English or, in some cases, in Arabic or

Spanish. Some of the groups proudly link to their

Facebook pages on their home websites, too.

“There is no place for terrorists or content that

promotes terrorism on Facebook, and we remove

it as soon as we become aware of it,” the company

said in a statement. “We knowwe can do more, and

we’ve been making major investments.” Facebook

appeared to shut down several pages after being

asked about them, including those for Al-Aqsa

Martyrs Brigade and Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, a “specially desig-

nated global terrorist entity” banned in the U.S.,

has launted its Facebook use, regularly repost-

ing stories from Hezbollah pages that Facebook

has shut down. In March, Al-Manar bragged that

Hezbollah staf quickly set up a new election page

after Facebook took one down. “Resistance support-

ers refollowed it, which stresses that the Resistance

voice can never be silenced,” an English-language

version of the story said.

In the past month, Mark Zuckerberg has boasted to

Congress and investors that Facebook Inc.’s artiicial

intelligence programs are turning the tide against

extremism on his site. “One thing that I’m proud

of is our AI tools that help us take down ISIS and

al-Qaeda-related terror content, with 99 percent of

that content being removed before any person lags

it to us,” the chief executive said on April’s earnings

call. Facebook executives repeated that number

onstage at early May’s annual developer conference.

But it applies only to posts by those two groups.

Many others seem able to recruit more or less as

they please from the site’s audience of 2.2 billion.

At least a dozen U.S.-designated terror groups

maintain a presence on Facebook, a review by

Bloomberg Businessweek

shows. That includes Hamas

and Hezbollah in the Middle East, Boko Haram in

West Africa, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces

of Colombia (FARC). The terror groups are rallying

○ Searches quickly turned up

evidence of extremist recruiting

in plain sight

OnFacebook,

Terror IsEverywhere