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Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda
Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are assisting the authorities police the Web, according to Reuters
On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband is accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting that the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism.”
Just a day earlier, the French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google , Twitter Inc and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called “online terrorism incitement and hate speech.”
Facebook, Google and Twitter say they do not treat government complaints differently from citizen complaints, unless the government obtains a court order. The trio are among a growing number that publish regular transparency reports summarizing the number of formal requests from officials about content on their sites.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), has ruled the world of search to such an extent that the name is often used as a verb to describe the activity of searching online.
Google’s share of the U.S. desktop search market remained steady at 63.9% in October with Microsoft Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT) taking a distant second place with 20.8% and Yahoo! Inc.(NASDAQ:YHOO) coming in third with 12.5%, according to comScore, an Internet analytics company.
Google’s 2014 revenue underscores the critical importance of search and search advertising to the company. In 2014, Google generated $59 billion in ad revenue, the majority of which was generated by search ads.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) owns and controls a massive ecosystem independent of Google.
In June, Apple declared that its App Store surpassed 100 billion app downloads. Search within the iTunes App store itself presents competition to Google desktop search.
On the other Recent Report, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) reported that Carolyn Everson, Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions, will take part in the UBS 43rd Annual Global Media and Communications Conference on December 8, 2015 at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time.