extremist content

Google to ramp up AI efforts to ID extremism on YouTube

Last week Facebook solicited help with what it dubbed "hard questions" -- including how it should tackle the spread of terrorism propaganda on its platform. Yesterday Google followed suit with its own

Social media firms should face fines for hate speech failures, urge UK MPs

Social media giants Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have once again been accused of taking a "laissez-faire approach" to moderating hate speech content on their platforms.

UK wants tech firms to build tools to block terrorist content

U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd is holding talks with several major internet companies today to urge them to be more proactive about tackling the spread of extremist content online. Companies in attend

After YouTube boycott, Google pulls ads from more types of offensive content

Google is pulling display ads from being placed alongside a wider range of content on YouTube and other sites, in the wake of a spike of criticism that its automatic, programmatic advertising seemingl