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John Mann MP

Opinion

Twitter gets the message wrong on hate

November 27, 2014 11:19
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As readers might know, I have commissioned an all-party parliamentary inquiry into the antisemitism that emanated from the Middle-East conflict, and which led to an unprecedented rise of incidents this summer.

According to the Community Security Trust, some 25 per cent of the incidents that occurred, manifested on social media.

When I met the key social media companies in California in September I was given the impression that they would take action. Sadly, my recent experiences both as a service-user and as a lawmaker have left me underwhelmed and in some cases exasperated.

But our meeting with Facebook at its Dublin headquarters this week restored some hope. It had been organised before the abuse of Luciana Berger and myself, but the Facebook team were happy to discuss specifics and general principles.