Boris Johnson calls Google ‘disgusting’ for taking advantage of extremist content



Foreign minister Boris Johnson has blasted “disgusting” net firms like Google for creating cash from extremist content.

Mr Johnson told the The Sunday Times that Google must “stop simply creating cash out of lubricious violent material.”

“I’m furious regarding it,” he said, pertaining to firms’ slow reaction to require down terrorist information and coaching manuals. “It’s offensive.”

Home secretary Amber cyprinid fish additionally wrote within the Telegraph that school corporations should do a lot of following the terrorist act on City of Westminster Bridge and Parliament, that killed four folks, as well as a policeman, and black-and-blue a dozen a lot of.

“Each attack confirms once more the role that the net is taking part in in serving as a passage, inciting and galvanizing violence, and spreading extremist ideology of all types,” she said.

“But we have a tendency to can’t hump by ourselves. we'd like the assistance of social media firms, the Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks of this world. and therefore the smaller ones, too: platforms like wire, Wordpress and Justpaste.it.”

Both ministers have mixed up these firms to indicate a lot of "social responsibility" once it involves content that promote coercion and political theory. 

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter are suspect of solely reacting to problems after they area unit flagged by users, and additionally reacting too slowly once contentious content is dropped at their attention.

“They have to be compelled to develop new systems and algorithms to observe these items and take away it. {they area unit|they're} not acting after they are tipped off,” same Mr Johnson.