The Times: Google provides new home for jihadists driven from YouTube
Google has taken steps to remove terrorist propaganda from its YouTube video-sharing site after investigations by The Times exposed the extent of the material and advertisers withdrew millions of pounds of business. However, experts have warned that the tech and publishing giant is failing to police its Google Drive file-storage and sharing service, which has become a key repository for terrorist propaganda, including calls for attacks in the West. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) wrote to Google three weeks ago warning that Drive’s terms of service, which state that “we do not necessarily review content”, were enabling the spread of “obscene” propaganda. It said the terms contradicted the hard line on terrorism that Google puts forward “for media consumption”.
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