Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook likes and believes positivity can beat the online terrorists

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook likes and believes positivity can beat the online terrorists ,

in recent weeks, technology executives from Twitter, Google, Microsoft and other companies have met with members of the administration of President Obama to discuss methods to combat terrorism online. While the peaks in camera would have shown that the technology leaders "seemed to be open to help" push the Obama terrorist groups like ISIS, conversations remained largely private.

A leader, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was present at the meetings appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday to highlight one way that Facebook could fight against the terrorists. Referring to an "attack as" a recent party Facebook page neo-Nazis, Sandberg believes positive messages about terrorist pages could help counter their views. "What was a page filled with hatred and intolerance was then the tolerance and messages of hope," said Sandberg, reports The Guardian .

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This approach allows Facebook users to fight against terrorism

The idea of ​​overwhelming terror pages with positive views and love is not one that can be quickly discredited, but it is unclear whether Facebook has data to show that it works regularly. This approach also allows regular users of Facebook to treat terrorism pages, rather than the company itself.

Sandberg would have demonstrated the preventive tool of Facebook emergency suicide at the recent meeting of the Obama administration. It is a tool that allows users flags friends who posted suicidal thoughts, and the Obama team would "whether such a system could be used to signal a terrorist content or detect a user who appears to be radicalized. "it is not known if Facebook is agreeable to the idea of ​​terrorist signaling content but Sandberg's comments this week show that the social network still has alternative ideas to the fight against this type of content.

Facebook is not alone in its different approach. Jared Cohen, director of the alphabet Google ideas, think the industry should work to force ISIS on the web. in a separate speech in London yesterday, Cohen suggested to stop Twitter accounts associated with ISIS, and that "success is like Isis being contained on the dark web." Cohen shared his thoughts much before, but none of the major technology companies have publicly committed to any direct action.

Cohen approaches and Facebook also bring the question of whether the terrorist social networks and the Internet in general conduct will do more harm than good. At least none of the high-tech companies are phoning up to Bill Gates to "close" the Internet, though.