Social media ‘needs policing’

LONDON: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should hire more people to monitor hate speech and material inciting violence and should put staff in police operation centres to remove offending posts faster, British lawmakers said.

In a report released yesterday, lawmakers said major internet firms were “consciously failing” to stop groups such as Islamic State promoting violence on social media and they needed to take more responsibility for the impact of material posted on their sites. Large internet companies needed to work with the government and security services to monitor such online activity around the clock.