UK to ask social media firms for annual review, conduct code

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves church in her constituency near Reading, Britain, February 4, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will announce a series of steps intended to crack down on social media companies for not policing extremist and abusive content on their platforms. 

May has made attacks on social media for not doing enough to combat extremism a fixture of her speeches in the past two years and she is now getting more specific on what she wants done.