facebook expanded the team. the mix of jobs includes 150 academics and analysts. facebook using cutting edge like artificial intelligence to mine the data to find this stuff. the company has said it wants to be hostile to terrorist content. a lot of complaints that facebook is too slow to take propaganda down and the terrorists can hide conversations. a lot of the social media companies have been under fire for law enforcement because this is how terrorists talk. via social media. it is all part of the story. speaking of terrorism. new day has reports that the leader of isis killed in the may 28th russian air strike. alisyn camerota and chris cuomo have the latest. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around
largely over and now the effort by isis is to develop what they call provinces or outposts and they re in dozens of countries around the world, and that will go on whether or not abu bakr al baghdadi is alive or dead. so in a sense, his mission to establish isis as the preeminent and most powerful and most dangerous terrorist group in the world, will survive him. sure. if he is, in fact, dead. i think the point that you the reporter just made right now is exactly right, it would be a huge propaganda victory for the russians, who for all of this time have been supporting the assad regime and the iranians and would be able to i think falsely claim that they re the ones fighting the terrorists, not the u.s. coalition. that s my question about the russian angle. i mean, i m reading sputnik here which is, you know, an english language, russian state, russian sponsored news agency, but i was also reading it during the
amongst those who were killed in the big russian airstrike which supposedly happened in the evening of may the 28th. now we don t know whether they were specifically out to get al baghdadi in that strike. we do know that syrian ground troops, with the help of russian air support, have been trying to battle isis in that region and particularly with heavy russian air strikes so it may have been, if it was al baghdadi who was killed, that the russians got lucky. but it will, of course, depend on the kind of evidence that they can present especially if that number of iraqi operatives were killed in this air strike. the fact of the matter is, christine, that there have been many rumors and reports of al baghdadi s death before and then he has appeared back again and wasn t killed. i think what raises the bar here is that russian state media have acknowledged that. they say, you know, in the past
syria. i mean, it would seem unlikely that he would have been close to raqqah, given the fact that raqqah is absolutely the focus of coalition air strikes and, you know, that the city is effectively encircled. what russian state media is saying is that has happened this military council meeting was at a command post south of raqqah. now we don t know how far south that was. is it a location he might have thought it safe to be, especially with 330 other iraqi sorry, isis militants who russian state media say were also killed in that attack? it all begs a lot of questions, and it will all depend on the kind of evidence that russia is able to produce. okay. into how compelling their argument is that he was, in fact, killed. dana, thank you so much for breaking that down for us.
over two years. so now the russian contribution to the war against the islamic state is not nothing, but it s their secondary goal, and their first goal is to bolster the assad regime. the context here is very clear, what s true is isis is getting pushed out of raqqah and there s a huge battle going on in the south of syria. the iranians are flooding in. you remember we struck pro-assad forces twice in the last month. it s a pretty krazy, vol crazy volatile situation. what i see coming out of russian press, here s a pretext for russia to vastly increase its operations in this region, which is now the center of the war and the crisis in syria. you know, whether or not we ever confirm that abu bakr al baghdadi is alive or dead, now the russians have a very good story to tell, if they drastically expand their strikes in this place, which is really not about abu bakr al baghdadi or isis, it s about control of the bread basket of syria and the future of the region and the