UK report on radicalisation - Global tech giants must do more

IN a report published today after a 12-month inquiry the UK Home Affairs Committee warns that social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are “consciously failing” to combat the use of their sites to promote terrorism. 

Those networks are spreading propaganda and being used as “the recruiting platforms for terrorism”, states the report.

The internet has become the frontline in the fight against terrorism. Huge corporations like Google, Facebook, and Twitters are taking in billions of dollars but, warns the report, they are consciously failing to tackle the terrorism threat. They are passing the buck by hiding behind their international legal status. In reality, they are effectively promoting radicalism and terrorism.