To fight extremist content online Canada teams up with tech giants

Canada announced funding and other initiatives on Wednesday to counter violent extremist content online by teaming with major technology companies Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google.

Public Safety Canada said in a statement the government will commit up to CUSD 1 million (USD 762,428) to the Tech Against Terrorism programme to create a digital database that will notify smaller companies when terrorist content is detected and help eliminate it.