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		</div><p>Four internet giants have teamed up to tackle terrorism, pledging to make their services hostile to violent extremists.</p>
<p>Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to address the &#8220;critical challenge&#8221; posed by the spread of terrorism online.</p>
<p>Internet companies have faced criticism in the wake of recent terror attacks, with calls for them to do more to ensure cyberspace is not a safe space for extremists.</p>
<p>Information on how to mount a terror attack was found to be easily accessible online following the Westminster atrocity in March, and Prime Minister Theresa May has urged social media companies to remove terrorist content.</p>
<p>Earlier this month Britain’s top anti-terror policeman, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley, echoed political concerns that terrorist material is too easily accessible online.</p>
<p>Announcing the creation of the forum a blog post on Twitter read: <i>&#8220;The spread of terrorism and violent extremism is a pressing global problem and a critical challenge for us all.</p>
<p>&#8220;We take these issues very seriously, and each of our companies have developed policies and removal practices that enable us to take a hard line against terrorist or violent extremist content on our hosted consumer services.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that by working together, sharing the best technological and operational elements of our individual efforts, we can have a greater impact on the threat of terrorist content online.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Among the plans the forum has vowed to work together on detecting content, researching future efforts on removing certain content, sharing knowledge, and helping smaller companies tackle online extremism.</p>
<p>Welcoming the news Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: <i>&#8220;This is a threat that transcends borders.</p>
<p>&#8220;That is why the Prime Minister is leading international efforts to tackle it.</p>
<p>&#8220;And that is why I urged the companies to step up and take the lead when I brought them together and hosted a roundtable about tackling this threat in March.</p>
<p>&#8220;That call has been echoed by my counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, who I have met today.</p>
<p>&#8220;I hope the forum will lead to more co-ordinated action to develop technical solutions; improve detection; encourage joint working and the sharing of knowledge and best practice with smaller companies.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is more work to be done and I look forward to seeing how we can build on this very positive step forward.&#8221;</i></p>
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