Tech companies back watchdog to tackle online extremism

Ardern has pushed for stronger action since New Zealand’s worst peacetime mass shooting in March, when a gunman attacked Muslims attending Friday prayers in Christchurch. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism was created in 2017 under pressure from US and European governments after a spate of deadly attacks. It will now become an independent organization led by an executive director, funded by Facebook Inc, Google’s YouTube, Twitter Inc and Microsoft Corp. She noted that even though WhatsApp is encrypted, Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram are not. “We are often able to find people on one and then take then down off the encrypted platforms,” Sandberg said.

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