The tech companies have made significant progress on this issue, but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to remove terrorist content online, said May.
UNITED NATIONS: Leaders of France, Italy and the United Kingdom urged social media companies on Wednesday to more swiftly remove "terrorist content" from the internet, with the aim of stopping it from being uploaded in the first place.
"The tech companies have made significant progress on this issue, but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to remove terrorist content online," British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly of world leaders in New York.
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