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<p>This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists
and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. The UK has been at
the forefront of the online battle against extremist and terrorist material.</p><p>The
dedicated police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) refers content that
they assess as contravening UK terrorism legislation to industry and have secured
the removal of over 310,000 pieces of terrorist material since its inception in February
2010.</p><p>The UK Government was instrumental in setting up the Global Internet Forum
to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an industry-led forum, following the 2017 terrorist
attacks. We continue to press for the GIFCT to lead a more robust and coordinated
cross-industry response to reduce the availability of terrorist content on the internet.</p><p>We
continue to work with technology companies, including Twitter, to encourage them to
take further steps in tackling terrorist material on the Internet. While companies
have taken positive steps, the Government has been clear that more needs to be done
to tackle online harms, including extremist content. That is why the Government published
the Online Harms White Paper, which sets out our plans for world-leading legislation
to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and hold companies to account
for tackling a wide range of online harms.</p>
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