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How companies like Twitter can identify terrorist or extremist accounts
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Aug 22, 2016
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How companies like Twitter can identify terrorist or extremist accounts
Elizabeth Bodine-Baron of RAND explains how a social media company can determine which accounts to block, and if it can make a difference.
From using common sense to minding your p's and q's, eight tips for how to survive in the social media space as well as the workplace.
From using common sense to minding your p's and q's, eight tips for how to survive in the social media space as well as the workplace.
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Elizabeth Bodine-Baron of RAND explains how a social media company can determine which accounts to block, and if it can make a difference.

Twitter has vastly expanded its fight against extremism online. The San Francisco-based company says it has suspended 360,000 accounts for what it calls "violent threats and the promotion of terrorism."

Elizabeth Bodine-Baron is co-director at the RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis and System Science. She and a team recently performed a study of ISIS supporters and opponents on Arabic-language Twitter. She joined the show to give some perspective on how a social media company can determine which accounts to block — and if it can make a difference.

To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above.