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French President Proposes Law to Halt "Fake News"
January 04, 2018
Politico reports that French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed new rules permitting judges to order social media platforms to take down "fake news" and to delete user accounts and block websites that disseminate such false or misleading stories.
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UK Official Seeks Tax Incentives for Removal of Terrorist Content
January 04, 2018
Reuters reports that UK Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace has called on the government to consider imposing higher taxes on tech companies like Google and Facebook if they fail to delete content on their platforms aimed at radicalizing users and encouraging them to perpetrate acts of terror.
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Germany Investigates MP for Online "Hate Speech"
January 03, 2018
The Guardian reports that, after social media platforms Facebook and Twitter submitted to a German law on online "hate speech" by temporarily suspending the accounts of German Member of Parliament (MP) Beatrix Von Storch for an anti-Muslim post, the German state prosecutor is investigating the MP for "incitement to hatred."
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UNESCO Creates Chair on Preventing Violent Extremism
January 03, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has partnered with a set of universities to launch a Chair on the Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism to promote research and host exchanges on best practices in preventing violent extremism, in line with UNESCO's programs on "global citizenship" and "celebration of cultural diversity."
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Article: Democracy Does Not Halt Extremist Islamism
January 03, 2018
Steven A. Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations writes that evidence from recent attacks by extremist Islamist groups on the Sinai Peninsula and elsewhere in Egypt tend to show that they are not linked to a lack of democracy or repression by the Egyptian government but rather the "ideological and theological" appeal of extremist groups to "alienated young people."
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