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 terrorist content is not deleted within an hour of posting, abandoning its earlier approach of getting internet platforms to remove such content voluntarily. A study released last month by Counter Extremism Project revealed that between March and June, ISIS members and supporters uploaded 1,348 YouTube videos garnering 163,391 views with more than 24 percent of the videos remaining on YouTube for more  than two hours. This was long enough for the videos to be downloaded, copied and distributed across Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, even after YouTube found and deleted them.