Death manuals still on Google

GOOGLE, Twitter and Facebook were still circulating grotesque terror manuals yesterday despite being warned about them 24 hours earlier.

It took the Daily Mail less than 30 seconds to find links to handbooks instructing extremists to murder children, target concerts and make home-made bombs.

The guides are used to train UK jihadists for attacks like Monday’s atrocity.

Google, Facebook and Twitter all claim they want to remove this sort of material from their websites, but it remains alarmingly easy for would-be terrorists to find.

When the Mail searched the names of terror manuals, Facebook immediately served up links to two guides, including one on bombs jihadists can make at home. The other says that it is acceptable to murder children if men are also present, and adds that would-be attackers should target concert halls and other closed venues.

After our reporter alerted Facebook to specific links to terror documents on Tuesday the internet giant deleted them, but others were still available.

We sent Facebook more links yesterday, but again only these were deleted, leaving others active. It means the firm is failing to carry out comprehensive checks for dangerous material.

A spokesman said: ‘There is no place for terrorists or content that promotes terrorism on Facebook and we remove it as soon as we become aware of it.’

The terror manuals are just as easily accessible on Twitter and Google.

Google removed links to one flagged by the Mail but it refuses to proactively root out problem content, leaving vile material available via similar links.

Google also profits from searches for this content. Yesterday, it was selling adverts on a page of search results that included links to a terror manual.

The firm makes money whenever a user clicks on an advert – in this case, for the online audiobook company Audible. Sources at the tech giant speculated the ad was auto-triggered by a search terms the Mail entered on Google.

Meanwhile, a quick search on Twitter brought up a link to a 2015 terror guide that was posted in January.

The company declined to comment and did nothing about the offending tweet.

Twitter removed 376,8900 accounts for promoting terrorism in the second half of 2016 but its methods remain inadequate as a huge amount still slip through.