British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has pressured social networking companies to create systems that automatically identify and block messages that promote extremism and violence before they can be deployed across their networks.
There is an "Internet arms race" between extremists and law enforcement and order enforcement forces, Rad told the Washington Post's New America Research Center on Thursday.
She added that government authorities and companies are already working to ensure that messages containing content are extremist and encourage violence from the Internet within an hour or two of their publication.
But said companies should go ahead with the development and deployment of industrial intelligence systems that could detect such content before it was published on the Internet to prevent publication.
"Since the beginning of 2017, violent extremist elements have created 40,000 websites and new applications on the Internet," said the interior minister, a member of the ruling Conservative Party. She said she visited companies in the Silicon Valley, including Google and YouTube, Facebook and Twitter earlier this year and appealed to them to do more to remove or block extremist content.
Until 12 months ago, social media companies had removed about half of the material calling for violence and extremism from their sites within two hours of discovery, and that proportion had recently increased to two-thirds.
Rad said that YouTube is now removing 83 percent of the videos found to be violent and extremist, adding that Britain has "evidence" that the organization is urging "tired" now to publish some of its material on the Internet.
But she said there were "many more" companies could do to use sophisticated technology to detect dangerous content faster.
In another context, it has revealed that, following a growing number of attacks by vehicle extremists, such as a market attack in London this year, British security authorities are currently revising laws governing car hire and are studying ways that authorities can collect more relevant data from car rental companies .
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