Facebook, the world’s largest social network and publisher, faces possible criminal prosecution in the UK for failing to remove child pornography and terrorist material, despite the content being “flagged” to moderators, according to The Times. A leading QC… Want to read more? Facebook has been under pressure from British politicians since it emerged that a small number of accounts linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) had used its platform to share extremist material with hundreds of thousands Julian Knowles QC, who viewed the content, believed much of it was illegal and that Facebook could have committed a criminal offence by refusing to remove it.
Facebook, the world’s largest social network and publisher, faces possible criminal prosecution in the UK for failing to remove child pornography and terrorist material, despite the content being “flagged” to moderators, according to The Times. Facebook has been under pressure from British politicians since it emerged that a small number of accounts linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) had used its platform to share extremist material with hundreds of thousands Julian Knowles QC, who viewed the content, believed much of it was illegal and that Facebook could have committed a criminal offence by refusing to remove it.