G-7 Says Google, Facebook Must Step Up Efforts Against Terror
- Leaders want more to be done to stop online terror propaganda
- U.K.’s May had pushed G-7 for common approach to industry
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Group of Seven leaders meeting in Sicily on Friday called on Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and other internet companies to do “substantially” more to take extremist material offline.
The gathering comes just four days after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in Manchester, an attack “that demonstrates that we must now redouble our efforts,” the leaders said in a statement after the first day of talks. They pledged to tackle the risk posed by fighters as they disperse from the battlefields of Syria, Libya and elsewhere.