Tech giants will fund research on how best to prevent incitements to violence online and how to reduce the effects on social media when attacks occur. — Dreamtime/TNS
Social media companies led by Facebook said they were ramping up an industry body that aims to weed out extremist content, seeking to put procedures in place globally on how to handle crises.
Facebook announced additional efforts at the United Nations during a meeting with New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern, who has taken up the cause of fighting online extremism after a March massacre by a white supremacist at two mosques in Christchurch.
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