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Recently, The Social Network garnered the Boston, New York, and Los Angeles film critics awards, the latest in a string of accolades. The Social Network dramatizes the foundation of Facebook, the $50 billion social networking site that now claims to host more than 500 million members worldwide. No doubt about it — Facebook is a monster, and as is the way with monsters, it may have grown beyond its creator's intentions, or ability to control.
Twice in as many weeks, Facebook has played a central role in the recruitment and apprehension of would-be domestic jihadists. It has become increasingly clear that this social network is now a tool readily employed by jihadists and their supporters around the globe.
When Antonio Martinez (aka Muhammad Hussain) was arrested in Baltimore for plotting to blow up an Army recruiting center, it was soon revealed that Martinez had posted his aims on Facebook, trying even to recruit other Muslim Facebook "friends" into roles as accomplices (roles they declined to play). Alerted to his Facebook posts by unnamed sources, undercover FBI agents supplied Martinez with dummy explosives — and watched as he attempted to detonate them.