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Social media companies will be fined if they fail to remove extremist content from their sites within an hour of being alerted by police, according to proposals under discussion in Brussels. The European Union is planning to act after increasing irritation at the failure of companies such as...

The European Union is reportedly planning to impose stricter regulations on social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter over the removal of online terrorist propaganda. According to new draft regulations to be published next month, the EU plans to impose fines on companies if...

No longer the carrot, now the stick: the European Commission is considering imposing an hour-long deadline for social networks to remove terrorist and extremist content after voluntary measures appear to have failed. On pain of heavy fines, the social networks will need to detect and remove content...

Now, according to a report in the Financial Times, the European Commission has decided to scrap a voluntary approach to ensure firms remove content. This will apparently be replaced with a much starker draft regulation, which will be published in September. EU commissioner for security, Julian King...

The campaign started with the cyber equivalent of a massive airstrike: law-enforcement agencies from eight countries, moving in unison to smash two of the main propaganda organs of the Islamic State. In the two-day operation in April, police seized computers and network servers across Europe and...

Malians went to the polls in the country's runoff presidential election on Sunday with threats of terror attacks on their minds, just as they were two weeks ago during the first round of elections when terror attacks disrupted several polling stations across the country. Malians thought not...

During a recent three-month period, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) conducted a limited study to determine how ISIS content is being uploaded to YouTube, how long it is staying online, and how many views these videos receive. CEP’s study reveals that YouTube is failing to adequately...

FACEBOOK is still broadcasting sickening terror videos of jihadists torturing and executing prisoners, a Daily Express investigation reveals today. Some had been online for months and viewed thousands of times. Others had been uploaded in the past fortnight but all were available to be shared...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "During a recent three-month period, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) conducted a limited study using its own video-matching technology and YouTube’s API to identify the presence on YouTube of a small sample of 229 previously identified ISIS-...

The European Union has lost patience with technology companies and will legislate to force them to remove terrorist propaganda from their services. The EU said in March that it favoured a “voluntary approach” but would force businesses’ hands if they did not crack down more...