Twitter sued by US widow for giving voice to Islamic State


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  • Friday, 15 Jan 2016

A Twitter Accessibility Team logo is seen on mobile accessibility engineer Sommer Panage's phone at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/Files

Twitter Inc is being sued by the widow of an American killed in Jordan who accuses the social media company of giving a voice to Islamic State, adding to the pressure to crack down on online propaganda linked to terrorism. 

Tamara Fields, a Florida woman whose husband Lloyd died in the Nov 9 attack on the police training centre in Amman, said Twitter knowingly let the militant Islamist group use its network to spread propaganda, raise money and attract recruits. 

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