federal prosecutors bring against people that help terrorists. but pulse families allege these giants knowingly and recklessly allow terrorists to use social media in several ways. to raise money. to recruit people. the suit says without twitter, facebook and google which owns youtube or streaming videos the explosive growth of isis would not have been possible. now lawyers accuse twitter of allowing isis accounts to promote its brutal terror individual jobs elicit donations and connect with one another. they excuse google of making money from ads that run just before these horrible videos. they excuse facebook prove providing a platform to spread violence and hate. earlier this month the social media company said they are joining together to identify terrorist content and keep it from being shared. twitter has said it shut down some 360,000 accounts since
back the next day and immediately sends that request to all the people he was connected to in the past. very suspicious behavior. very obviously that it can be detected. these companies do nothing about it. that has to stop. there is something called the communications decency act and i want says providers can t be held liable for what users post. it protests our first amendment rights. how do you get around that? well let me give you and example. kind of a common sense example. you can take a statement from one person and a statement from another person. you can pull a sentence of one statement and a sentence from another statement and put them together and say something completely different than either one of those people have said even though you haven t written one word. in this context these companies take a posting from isis. they take it an advertisement. they look at the viewer who is looking at that particular point in time. and they decide to match up that
string of attacks around the world. the department now moving highly trained teams to a number of high-profile locations around the city. many here at home feel on edge after that truck barrelled through a crowd of shoppers in berlin, germany. that incident killed 12 people. let s get right to evan perez. reporter: you showed pictures of one of those holiday markets in new york. that s one across the street from the cnn center, time warner center there in columbus circle. nypd says they are moving these critical response teams to places like that in order to try to give people a measure of assurance and to actually provide more security but, carol, as you ve seen in berlin and in the attack in nice and even last month in columbus, ohio, at ohio state university it s really difficult for police to secure these type of locations. these are the types of soft targets that isis has urged its support towers try to carry out
august and facebook has said in a similar lawsuit filed by these same lawyers that the company is trying to aggressively get rid of content that promotes or supports terrorism. it s a big issue. lot of families say look if it weren t for these platforms isis and its strength, its power would not be as great as it is. thank you. so joining me now the attorney in the case, keith altman. you re representing the three victims families who are suing these companies. you heard deborah lay it out. seems like a tough road. do you think it will be? good morning. my firm, we ve been spending a lot of time looking at the social media issue here. it s our belief these companies provide an instrument that isis can use to conduct terrorist activities. and they do this by providing an infrastructure that allows them to create a web, to spread a web, and even when they take these people down twitter said they took down 350,000 accounts
today there were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland and germany. and it is only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. reporter: good morning, carol. donald trump put out a flury of statements in which he was expressing his concern but also condemning the attacks that we ve seen and he tied both the incident in turkey as well as the incident in berlin to radical islamic terrorism even though investigations there are still ongoing. i want to read you a portion of a statement he put out. donald trump says assassinate bad radical islamic terrorist. we don t see that kind of language from him when he was talking about the incident in berlin as well. let me take you to that statement in which trump said isis and other islamic terrorists continue to slaughter christi christians. these terrorists and their regional and worldwide networks must be eradicated from the face