Hamas’s livestreaming of its massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, stands as the most effective hijacking of major social media platforms by a terrorist organization in history. What should have marked a turning point for safety-focused innovation instead became a case study in temporary fixes and sustained systemic failure.

Despite the rise of generative AI systems capable of transforming content moderation for the better, platforms have not meaningfully changed and neither have the incentives in the law to support a necessary reform. In fact, the current U.S. leadership is leading pressure in the opposite legislative direction, both domestically and abroad. As a result, in the two years since the Oct. 7 attacks, there has been a troubling normalization of hosting recorded terro

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