CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "And while IS has certainly lost territory, they have not lost the capacity to operate online, radicalising the vulnerable, aided and abetted by our global tech platforms. Forced out of outright denial that there was a problem at all after years of pressure, Big Tech will now say it is taking unprecedented steps to control the deluge of appalling, lethally seductive material that finds its way onto our screens on a daily basis. It’s nonsense. Worse still, the technology actually exists now to prevent much of this filth from being seen in the first place. My colleague at the Counter Extremism Project, Dr Hany Farid, has produced software that can identify and take down videos and images glorifying terrorism almost immediately. The technology is available free to any government that wants it. It took Dr Farid and others 12 months to perfect this fix. It’s taken five times that amount of time in obfuscation and evasion from Big Tech to be dragged kicking and screaming to accountability for it."