Of more than 850 open investigations into domestic terrorism, 40 percent were racially motivated violent etremism cases, and a 'significant majority' of that 40 percent focused on white supremacists.
Bipartisan lawmakers questioned FBI, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security officials about domestic terrorism for more than two-and-a-half hours on Wednesday.
"It seems to me that there have been a number of incidents where these killers have given us a road map very clearly ... these are not even on the dark web. It’s on Facebook ... these platforms that are well known to everyone and reach enormous numbers of people," New York Democrat Kathleen Rice said after noting that at least four mass murders since 2014 have sympathized or identified with the"incel" movement.
The federal officials offering testimony noted restrictions on opening investigations into online content that many find unsavory because of First Amendment protections, but said that they were providing briefings to representatives from social media companies about identifying extremist content. A Twitter representative told Newsweek that the social media company had"well-established" relationships with law enforcement and that"if Twitter is contacted by law enforcement directly, we can work with them and provide the necessary information for their investigation of the threat. We continuously deploy new technological tools to identify Tweets and accounts that violate our Terms of Service." Google and Facebook did not respond prior to publication.
"We are seeing that same type threat in the domestic terrorism world, where individual actors, lone wolves, insular type people, can find their ideology to justify their violence and their actions online," McGarrity said. "There’s a lot of hate out there on the internet," he added later in the hearing.
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