Social media giants urged to make it easier to report abuse to police
PA
17 December 2020, 10:39 am
Social media firms should make it easier to report potential illegal abuse to the police, the public standards watchdog said.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life said Twitter, Facebook and Google had a responsibility to their users to set out how to “escalate any credible threats they receive”.
The criticism formed part of a report on progress in tackling intimidation aimed at people in public life.
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Since its initial report in 2017, the committee said all three social media companies now had measures in place to protect users from intimidation and harassment.