(AFP) Tech companies led by Facebook on Monday joined world leaders in ramping up an industry body to weed out extremist content online, giving it a permanent staff.
Facebook announced the steps at the United Nations, where French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern chaired a meeting on extremist risks on the internet.
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a vaguely conceived alliance tasked with tackling the most dangerous material on social media.
But tech companies came under renewed criticism after a white supremacist in March killed worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
