A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content.
Evidence was found on Facebook, Twitter and Google of such a nature that the committee has said that it found: “repeated examples of social media companies failing to remove illegal content when asked to do so” adding that it had found “repeated examples of social media companies failing to remove illegal content when asked to do so”.
It condemned the larger companies who they have deemed “big enough, rich enough and clever enough” to be able to fix this problem rather than simply washing their hands of the matter.
Examples reviewed during the investigation included;
The report has criticised the social media companies for relying on user feedback to moderate their sites rather than them taking responsibility for it themselves. The report suggested that such “clever” organisations could surely be able to find a solution to this problem.
The report has made the following open recommendations;
Whilst it is clear that there is an ongoing argument between those who believe in freedom of speech and freedom of the internet, there are also those who believe that to allow such traffic to pass the internet unchecked and unmonitored is irresponsible. Either way, no solution to this problem appears to be at hand.
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