By John McCarthy

Social network Diasporo has denied media claims it cannot ban IS accounts, stating that it relies upon users to flag up content hosted on its independent servers.

The social network, which was launched in 2010, gained prominent media coverage this week after it emerged IS fundamentalists were using the site – after being removed from higher profile communication services such as Twitter.

Diaspora, which said it was “concerned” by the IS posts, admitted that terrorists were using its “free and open source software,” but added it was actively removing accounts responsible for the uploads, as they are located.

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Source: The Drum