Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will join world leaders at the summit in Paris designed to tackle the growing threat from online hate speech
It comes in the wake of the New Zealand terror attacks in March, in which 51 people were murdered by a white supremacist.Within 24 hours Facebook had removed one and a half million copies of the atrocity.
When Google tried to remove the material from its platforms it was subjected to an unprecedented online attack by individuals who appear to have been primed to do so. Leaders at the summit, from Canada to Senegal to Indonesia as well as executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, will be asked to prevent extremist material from taking root online, to ensure it can be removed quickly, and to ensure that live-streaming a terror atrocity will not be possible.
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