TERROR TUBE YouTube lets extremists post hundreds of jihadist videos online

The website misses its two-hour target for taking down terrorist videos in a quarter of all cases
YOUTUBE allows extremists to spread jihadist propaganda online by exploiting holes in the website's filters, it emerged today.
The site has a two-hour target for taking down terror content - but it misses that target in a quarter of all cases, a report reveals.
 Terror clips are allowed to stay up on YouTube, a report reveals
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Terror clips are allowed to stay up on YouTube, a report reveals
Extremist videos end up getting more than 12,000 views a week, allowing the jihadist message to spread across the world.
Among the clips which have been freely uploaded to YouTube is a bomb-making video used by the Manchester Arena attacker.
Another film available on the website, which is owned by Google, shows a terrorist threatening to kill Prince Harry.
The Counter Extremism Project monitored YouTube for three months to see how much extremist content slips through the net.
 The site claims it removes extremist content within two hours
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The site claims it removes extremist content within two hours
During that time, 229 terror videos which had previously been identified and removed were re-uploaded to the site - with 24 per cent staying up for more than the two-hour time limit.
The clips got a total of 163,000 views - potentially exposing thousands of people to their twisted message.
One of the films was a bomb-making tutorial watched by Manchester bomber Salman Abedi.
Another - uploaded on six separate occasions - shows a terrorist saying to Prince Harry: "Why don't you come here and fight us if you're man enough, so we can send you and your Apaches to hellfire?"
The CEP accused YouTube of failing to use the most reliable technology to ensure extremist videos can't be uploaded after they've already been removed once.
 One video available on YouTube targeted Prince Harry
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One video available on YouTube targeted Prince Harry
Ex-minister Mark Simmonds told the Daily Mail: "This study dispels any lingering myth that YouTube are doing enough to stop their site being used as an IS recruitment tool.
"The research shows that YouTube are not even meeting their own promise to delete all extremist content within two hours.
"For them to fail in a quarter of all cases, with much of the content still available three days or more after first being uploaded, is unacceptable."
A spokesman for Google said: "We've invested heavily in people and technology to ensure we keep making progress to detect and remove terror content as quickly as possible.
"We're a founding member of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, which sees tech companies collaborate to keep terror content off the web."

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