Still, airlines including American, Delta and United have requested screening for potentially offensive content, he said.

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Another suggestion is whether social media sites should be asked to improve their moderation procedures to ensure offensive content is more swiftly removed.

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They are likely filtering for other offensive content as well, so they probably have means in place they could use to stop the spam.

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