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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Federal law enforcement and social media failing to address domestic terror threats, Senate report finds

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White supremacist and violent extremist content continues to proliferate on social media platforms, at least partially driven by the companies’ own business models at the expense of user safety, according to a new Senate committee report.

Federal law enforcement is failing to effectively respond to domestic terrorism, largely fuelled by white supremacist and anti-government violence, despite a 2019 mandate to track and report data on the domestic terror threats, according to the report from the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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