Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Kate Green Excerpts
Monday 16th April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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I do agree with my hon. Friend. It was the Home Office that took the initiative to set up the counter-terrorism internet referral unit, which has seen 300,000 pieces of terrorist propaganda taken down—voluntarily, but taken down none the less. It was the Home Office that worked with ASI Data Science to develop an automatic model, which has a 99.9% accuracy rate. If we can do it, why can those companies not?

Kate Green Portrait Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (Lab)
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I recently held a community meeting to contribute to Mayor Andy Burnham’s consultation on community integration and preventing radical hate speech. One issue that came up was the extent of online hate speech against Islam coming from around the world, and particularly from the United States. Will the Minister say what discussions he is having internationally to ensure that this kind of derogatory and offensive material is taken down as quickly as possible?