Extremist

AI is more accurate in identifying and blocking extremist content

Google claimed that its robots flag three in four offensive videos from YouTube even before they are reported by users.

Lawmakers in United Kingdom criticise social media giants for failing to remove extremist content

Social media were heavily criticized by a committee of British lawmakers on Monday for failing to do enough to remove illegal and extremist material.

Microsoft to crack down on content promoting extremist acts

With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft Corp outlined new policies to crack down what it called "terrorist content" on some of its consumer services.

Does an extremist's iPhone contain a 'cyber pathogen'?

A local prosecutor has offered an unusual justification for forcing Apple to help hack an iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass killer: The phone might have been "used as a weapon'' to introduce malicious software to county computer systems.

Facebook begins Europe-wide campaign against extremist posts

Facebook Inc began a Europe-wide campaign to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees.

One year on, Pakistan school massacre survivors still haunted

More than 150 lives were lost in the Peshawar school massacre of 16 December, 2014, the deadliest extremist attack in Pakistan's history.

Israel uses detention without trial on Jewish extremist for first time

Israel on Tuesday used a controversial decades-old form of detention without trial on an alleged Jewish extremist for the first time following an outcry over the burning to death of a Palestinian toddler.

Teenage girl stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride parade dies

A teenage girl seriously wounded after an anti-gay extremist stabbed her and several others in last week's attack on Jerusalem's gay pride parade died Sunday, a hospital official.

UK govt to bar extremists views from appearing on TV, social media

May said that only a minority of extremists are violent, but "the damage that extremists cause to our society is reason enough to act."

Russia expresses sadness, says it's inadmissible that Bhagwad Gita's taken to court

In the wake of an uproar over a move to ban Bhagwad Gita in Siberia, Russia has expressed sadness over the development, saying it is "inadmissible" that a holy scripture is taken to court.