Facebook hosted Lee Rigby death chat ahead of soldier's murder
Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered in London on 22 May last year
This story is about Facebook being the firm that hosted a conversation by one of Fusilier Lee Rigby's killers five months ahead of the attack, the BBC has learned.Michael Adebowale said he wanted to kill a soldier and discussed his plans in "the most graphic and emotive manner", according to the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee.
A Spokeswomen from Facebook had said:
"We don't comment on individual cases but Facebook's policies are clear, we do not allow terrorist content on the site and take steps to prevent people from using our service for these purposes." However, that ISC state that ''the company should do more''.
In my opinion, Facebook should be doing more in order to prevent such things happening. As institutions and elite people have control over the media, as a Marxist would say, it only makes sense if Facebook have better technology in order to control any extremist behaviour - rather than dealing with just smaller issues such as just reporting an inappropriate image. This shows that the negative impact Facebook and similar new and digital media platforms can lead to, and how murders can also be planned on these.
- Michael Adebowale has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years
- Facebook had disabled seven of Adebowale's accounts ahead of the killing, five of which had been flagged for links with terrorism.
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