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Watch Facebook, Google and Twitter testify before Congress on extremist content

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Representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about what they are doing to keep extremist content off their platforms.

The companies told Congress that they've gone beyond screening and removing extremist content from their services and are creating more anti-terror propaganda to try and pre-empt violent messages at the source.