polar opposite of 9/11. a tragedy that brought the country together. in your publication, usa today had a piece about the failures of monitoring extremism in the u.s. what did your reporters find about the broader context here? kevin johnson found in a study that took several months that the united states federal government has a very even effort against domestic terrorism. against white supremacy groups. looking at at the. since oklahoma city. that was 27 years ago at bombing some efforts since then by the justice department or by the fbi to address the threat of domestic terrorism. they have not been consistent and they were revised a year ago with a terrible attack on the capital last january 6. i just wanted to get you in
polar opposite of 9/11. a tragedy that brought the country together. in your publication, usa today had a piece about the failures of monitoring extremism in the u.s. what did your reporters find about the broader context here? kevin johnson found in a study that took several months that the united states federal government has a very even effort against domestic terrorism. against white supremacy groups. looking at at the. since oklahoma city. that was 27 years ago at bombing some efforts since then by the justice department or by the fbi to address the threat of domestic terrorism. they have not been consistent and they were revised a year ago with a terrible attack on the capital last january 6. i just wanted to get you in
it. what an alarming claim to fame. i wonder from your sort of existence at the department of homeland security and sort of having part of that responsibility of monitoring extremism here at home how prevalent you think facebook is. well, i will tell you not just that, nicole. but after i left dhs i went to work in big tech. i worked at google. it was fun. it was adult disneyland. you get free snacks. the tech sector is a great place to work. but what i saw in the broader industry is that there was a willful blindness to the damage that a lot of platforms were doing out there to our democracy. and facebook was front and center on that. i mean, i thought as facebook as the nightmare fuel of social division and of public safety concerns and of national security threats. so when i was at dhs, we flew out to the west coast probably once a quarter to go meet with these tech companies to talk