The fear that terrorist organizations will exploit the reach and affordances of social media platforms to spread propaganda, incite violence, and recruit followers was one of the first—and remains one of the most intense—anxieties about the harms caused by the internet. 1. Jillian C. York, Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism 100–113 (2021) (reviewing the pressure on tech companies to remove terrorist content from 2008 onwards). For years, both politic...
