The Telegraph My details My newsletters Logout Upgrade to Premium My details My newsletters Logout The Telegraph Facebook using artificial intelligence to combat terrorist propaganda time about the artificial intelligence programmes it uses to deter and remove terrorist propaganda online Credit: Ap 16 June 2017 • 1:37am Facebookhas spoken for the first time about the artificial intelligence programmes it uses to deter and remove terrorist propaganda online after the platform was criticised for not doing enough to tackle extremism.
 The social media giant also revealed it is employing 3,000 extra people this year in order to trawl through posts and remove those that break the law or the sites' community guidelines.
 It also plans to boost it's "counter-speech" efforts, to encourage influential voices to condemn and call-out terrorism online to prevent people from being radicalised.
 In a landmark post titled "hard questions", Monika Bickert, Director of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Policy Manager explained Facebook has been developing artificial intelligence to detect terror videos and messages before they are posted live and preventing them from appearing on the site.
 The pair state: "In the wake of recent terror attacks, people have questioned the role of tech companies in fighting terrorism online.