This article is about how social media companies are putting profit before safety and should face fines of tens of millions of pounds for failing to remove extremist and hate crime material promptly from their websites, MPs have said. Referring to Google’s failure to prevent paid advertising from reputable companies appearing next to YouTube videos posted by extremists, the committee’s report said: “One of the world’s largest companies has profited from hatred and has allowed itself to be a platform from which extremists have generated revenue.” In addition to this, Facebook recently had major complaints about its recent, disturbing news which had a major effect on many people. Recently, on Facebook live, a man went viral for going around in his vehicle and killing innocent people; the problem with this was that even though that this content shouldn't be allowed to be seen online, Facebook still let the account to publish this live on air without Facebook wanting to remove it. Facebook also told MPs that it is is reviewing how it handles violent videos and other objectionable material after a video of a murder in the United States remained on its service for more than two hours.
- A thorough review is required of the legal framework controlling online hate speech, abuse and extremism to ensure that the law is up to date, the MPs conclude. “What is illegal offline should be illegal – and enforced – online.”
- In Germany, the report points out, the justice ministry has proposed imposing financial penalties of up to €50m on social media companies that are slow to remove illegal content.
- Material encouraging child abuse and sexual images of children was also not removed, despite being reported on by journalists.
In my opinion, I believe what Facebook did was very wrong and shouldn't have happened. If they are a company which want to succeed, then they have to come up with solutions which will not get them that many complaints. In addition, considering this recent news about the Facebook Live, they need to act quicker and more sensible so that it doesn't effect or scare their audience for the long term. For example, seeing someone shot dead isn't a sight which anyone would like to see and for this reason, for Facebook to allow their users to witness this is very cruel and something needs to happen with this. Serious improvements...
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