Extremist vid rap for Google

GOOGLE is today accused of failing to remove “dangerous” jihadi and far-right videos, while Twitter has claimed some success in combating extremist content.

In a study of Google-owned YouTube, 107 jihadi terror videos and 94 from far-right extremists were flagged up.

But YouTube failed to remove 121 posts. Yvette Cooper, head of the Home

Affairs Select Committee, said it was “unacceptable” that posts which “glorify extremist violence” were still online.

Twitter has suspended 935,897 terror accounts since August 2015. It said 95% of suspensions in the first half of 2017 were due to “internal efforts”.

YouTube said many extremist videos are removed before complaints are made.