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Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/california-shooting-socialmedia-insightp-idINL1N13U0PV20151207
Social Media Companies Step Up Battle Against Militant Propaganda
(Reuters) Joseph Menn - Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web. Twitter revised its abuse policy to ban indirect threats of violence, in addition to direct threats, and has dramatically improved its speed for handling abuse requests, a spokesman said. Facebook said it banned this year any content praising terrorists. Google's YouTube has expanded a little-known "Trusted Flagger" program, allowing groups ranging from a British anti-terror police unit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center to flag large numbers of videos as problematic and get immediate action.