Britain's top internal security official is pressing social media companies to devise automatic systems to spot and block violent militant messaging before it is posted on their networks. Since the beginning of 2017, violent militant operatives have created 40,000 new Internet destinations, Rudd said. She noted that she visited Silicon Valley companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and YouTube,Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, earlier this year and called on them to do more to take down or block militant content. As of 12 months ago, social media companies were taking down about half of the violent militant material from their sites within two hours of its discovery, and lately that proportion has increased to two thirds, she said. But she said there was "much more" companies can do to use cutting edge technology to spot dangerous content more quickly.

Source: dna November 10, 2017 07:06 UTC