Coalition pledges $18m to combat extremist websites and social media

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Nearly $18m will be spent on shutting down websites and monitoring social media for terrorist propaganda, the attorney general, George Brandis, has announced.

Brandis said the Combating Terrorist Propaganda in Australia initiative will help to halt the spread of violent extremism.

Some of the $17.9m cost will go toward the funding of “civil society organisations to establish a counter-narrative to combat and contest terrorist narratives that have been mediated online”, Brandis said.

“We are monitoring social media for the purpose of identifying, and where appropriate, taking down terrorist propaganda just as we monitor social media for the purpose for identifying and taking down paedophilia,” Brandis said. “We must move beyond the notion that some people still have that the internet and social media are a lawless space. They are not.

Source: www.theguardian.com

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