Frances Fitzgerald has called on internet companies, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, to act as partners in the EU’s fight against online hate speech and terrorist activity.
“Working in partnership with the internet companies is vital to tackling the scourge of online hate speech and terrorist material online. Such material is offensive to our citizens and our values,” Ms Fitzgerald said.
“It cannot be tolerated. Together, we will be resolute in finding ways to identify, take down and block all such offensive material.”
EU officials have begun a push for major internet companies to do more to tackle the spread of abusive and illegal material.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft signed up to a voluntary code of conduct to take action to remove hate speech,