By John Glenday

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft have come together to form an anti-terror compact after agreeing to set aside commercial rivalries in order to form a global working group dedicated to combatting extremist content from being spread on their platforms.

The social media quartet intend to share technical solutions developed to deal with the problem as well as jointly commission new research to devise more advanced tools to tackle the issue under the guise of a new body – The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.

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Source: The Drum