Monika Bickert might have one of the toughest jobs at Facebook right now.
As Facebook’s (FB) head of counterterrorism efforts and global product policy, she sets community standards and monitors content that its 1.86 billion users share and consume every day.
It’s only through public-private partnerships, particularly with students, that Facebook can really crack down on prejudice, online hate and extremism, Bickert told Yahoo Finance in an interview at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Beyond managing her own team of counterterrorism researchers and analysts who review content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Bickert is relying heavily on community policing.
Through a joint venture with the US Department of Homeland Security and marketing firm EdVenture Partners, Facebook has doubled down on “Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism,” its attempt to crowdsource and aggregate insights from students across the world.
Full story at Yahoo News.
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