It is resilient and reaches an audience of, at minimum, tens of thousands, including large numbers of users in the UK. The report is published ahead of a meeting between Theresa May and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to discuss possible new measures to tackle online extremism, including fines for web companies that fail to take down extremist content. “It is clear that our counter-extremism efforts and other initiatives to combat extremism online have, until now, been inadequate. “The evidence suggests that we are not winning the war against online extremism and we need to consider options for change. In response to the report Twitter said terrorist content has no place on the platform.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2017 22:52 UTC