article_snippet: Recommendations in a new report by US-based Brookings Institute a new report by US-based Brookings Institute include governments and social media companies working together to find new ways to tackle the problem of ISIS'
   accounts spreading horrific murder videos and images and jihadist rhetoric.
article_snippet: The report, by Brookings academic JM Berger and technologist Jonathon Morgan, says: 'While The report, by Brookings academic JM Berger and technologist Jonathon Morgan do not believe that any mainstream social media platform wishes to see any mainstream social media platform services used to further acts of horrific violence, we also suspect some would rather not be bothered with the challenge of crafting a broad and coherent response to the issue. '
article_snippet: While we can sympathise with the challenges and dilemmas such a response would entail, it is clear that social media companies do feel an obligation to respond to some social standards and illegal uses of social media companies services. '
article_snippet: We are not aware of any major company that takes a hands-off approach to the use of hands-off platform to promote child pornography or human trafficking - or, less dramatically, phishing, spam, fraud, and copyright violations. '
article_snippet: Further study is required to evaluate the unintended consequences of suspension campaigns and their attendant trade-offs.
article_snippet: Social media companies and the US government must work together to devise appropriate responses to extremism on social media. '
article_snippet: Although discussions of this issue often frame government intervention as an infringement on free speech, in reality, social media companies currently regulate speech on social media companies platforms without oversight or disclosures of how suspensions are applied.'
highlights_snippet: Information was revealed in a new report by US-based Brookings Institute .