# AI Removed Nearly Two Million Pieces of Terrorist Content by Guy Rosen > "In the first quarter of 2018, for example, we proactively removed almost two million pieces of ISIS and al-Qaeda content — 99% of which was taken down before anyone reported it to Facebook." > **— Guy Rosen**, *May 2, 2018, Facebook technology report* ## Sources and Context - **Authored report and complete sentence:** [Using Technology to Remove the Bad Stuff Before It's Even Reported | Meta](https://about.fb.com/news/2018/05/removing-content-using-ai/) — Rosen describes proactive use of AI, machine learning, and computer vision. The poster preserves the sentence's own qualification that the figure concerns content Facebook removed, not all content on the platform. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]] - **Article:** [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Platform Counterterrorism|Platform Counterterrorism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "In the first quarter of 2018, for example, we proactively removed almost two million pieces of ISIS and al-Qaeda content — 99% of which was taken down before anyone reported it to Facebook." — Guy Rosen, May 2, 2018, Facebook technology report https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-guy-rosen-ai-removed-terrorist-content ```