Breaking News: Creighton says social media firms too slow in blocking terror content

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"Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube were all criticised for their handling of extremist content on their platforms after video footage of the New Zealand mosque shootings was live streamed and widely shared online. Fifty people died in and after the attacks. Lucinda Creighton, who is senior advisor at the Counter Extremism Project said the platforms could do more. 'It's really hard to fathom...I understand why tech companies oppose privacy and data law because it impacts on their revenues and they don't like any change to how their revenue model functions, but this is reputational as well as being morally the right thing to do. They keep dragging their heels and saying there's little they can do...It's hugely frustrating.'"

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Date
March 17, 2019
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