"Beyond that, the kinds of content Zuckerberg focused on in the hearings were images and videos. From what we know about Facebook’s automated system, at its core, it’s a search mechanism across a shared database of hashes. If a video of a beheading goes up that has been previously been identified as terrorist content in the database — by Facebook or one of its partners — it’ll be automatically recognized and taken down. “It’s hard to differentiate between that and the earliest days of the Google search engine, from the technological perspective,” says Ryan Calo, law professor and a director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington. “If that was AI, then this is AI.”"
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