She called on Elon Musk ’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube to “urgently review” material accessed by killer Axel Rudakubana - which she said is still available online. In a joint letter with Technology Secretary Peter Kyle Ms Cooper said the ease with which “such dangerous and illegal” content can be viewed was “unacceptable”.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on Elon Musk to remove a harrowing video watched by Axel Rudakabana from X. Rudakabana, who was this week sentenced to 52-years in prison, watched violent footage from an attack on a Sydney bishop in April 2024 before he murdered three girls last July.
Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.
Home Secretary warns that other attacks could be inspired by material that Axel Rudakubana is known to have accessed online
The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.
Yvette Cooper has sent a letter to leading tech giants warning that their failure to remove ‘dangerous and illegal’ content like the videos seen by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana could ‘inspire other attacks’.
Britain will back new local inquiries into child sexual abuse across the country, the government said on Thursday, after weeks of criticism by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk stirred renewed concern about a decades-old scandal over grooming gangs.
The Labour Government is under increasing pressure to launch a national inquiry into the sexual abuse of women and children in the UK.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk, following a barrage of ... furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk. In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also authorized what ...
The UK government backs local inquiries into organised child sexual abuse gangs, following controversy sparked by Elon Musk's comments.
The Home Secretary has written to firms including Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta telling them to urgently review content.
(Alliance News) - Failing to remove extreme videos from social media could lead them to inspire further attacks like the Southport atrocity, Yvette Cooper has warned big tech companies.