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US tech giants like Facebook, Google may find their future shaped by Europe

Europe's culture of tougher oversight of companies could soon rule tech giants like Facebook and Google as govts seek to combat fake news and prevent online extremism

5 min read17 Oct 2017
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Theresa May says Britain to take tougher line on extremist content

UK Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain needs to take a tougher line against people who post and view extremist content on the Internet

1 min read3 Oct 2017
Technology

Twitter suspends 300,000 accounts tied to terrorism in 2017

Twitter says it has suspended nearly 300,000 accounts globally linked to terrorism. Of those, roughly 95% were identified by the company's spam-fighting automation tools

1 min read19 Sep 2017
Companies

US tech giants join hands to fight extremist online content

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have launched the 'global internet forum to counter terrorism', aimed at thwarting the spread of extremist content online

1 min read27 Jun 2017
Companies

Google says it will do more to suppress terrorist propaganda

Google is creating new policies and practices to suppress terrorism-related videos, a response to UK lawmakers who have said the internet is a petri dish for radical ideology

2 min read19 Jun 2017
News

G-7 says Google, Facebook must step up efforts against terror

G-7 leaders' called on Google, Facebook and other internet companies to do 'substantially' more to take extremist material offline

1 min read27 May 2017

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