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		</div><p>Two years after a white supremacist in New Zealand livestreamed the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers on Facebook, French president Emmanuel Macron said the internet continues to be be used by terrorists as a weapon to propagate hate.</p>
<p>Mr Macron and other leaders from tech giants and governments around the world – including the US, for the first time – gathered virtually on Saturday to find better ways to stop extremist violence from spreading online, while also respecting freedom of expression.</p>
<p>It was part of a global effort started by Mr Macron and New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern after deadly attacks in their countries were streamed or shared on social networks.</p>
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<p>The US government and four other countries joined the effort, known as the Christchurch Call, for the first time this year.</p>
<p>It involves some 50 nations plus tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, and is named after the New Zealand city where the killings took place at two mosques.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a pre-recorded video that UK authorities had taken down more than 300,000 pieces of terrorist material from the internet over the past decade, which he described as a tsunami of hate.</p>
<p>“Terrorist content is like a metastasising tumour within the internet, or series of tumours,” Mr Johnson said.</p>
<p>“If we fail to excise it, it will inevitably spread into homes and high streets the world over.”</p>
<p>Since the Call’s launch, governments and tech companies have cooperated in some cases in identifying violent extremist content online.</p>
<p>Ms Ardern, however, said more tangible progress is needed to stop it from proliferating.</p>
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<p>The meeting was aimed at revitalising coordination efforts, notably since US president Joe Biden entered office, and getting more tech companies involved.</p>
<p>Mr Macron and Ms Ardern welcomed the US decision as a potential catalyst for stronger action.</p>
<p>The French leader said the internet had continued to be used as a tool in recent attacks in the US, Vienna, Germany and elsewhere.</p>
<p>He said it cannot happen again, and that new European regulations against extremist content would help.</p>
<p>Ms Ardern said that two years after the Christchurch Call was launched, momentum was strong.</p>
<p>But she acknowledged the challenge in essentially playing “whack-a-mole” with different countries, internet platforms and algorithms that can foster extremist content</p>
<p>New Zealand’s leader said: “The existence of algorithms themselves is not necessarily the problem, it’s whether or not they are being ethically used.</p>
<p>“And so that is probably the biggest focus for the Call community over the next year.”</p>
<p>She said part of the solution involved better equipping a younger generation of internet users to have the skills to deal with radical content or disinformation when they encounter it online.</p>
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<p>Although the US only officially joined the Christchurch Call this year, it had been consistently contributing to the effort, Ms Ardern said.</p>
<p>White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “Countering the use of the internet by terrorists and violent extremists to radicalize and recruit is a significant priority for the United States.”</p>
<p>She also stressed the importance of protecting freedom of expression and “reasonable expectations of privacy”.</p>
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