G7 says Google, Facebook must step up efforts against terror

Group of Seven leaders meeting in Sicily on Friday called on Google, Facebook and other internet companies to do “substantially” more to take extremist material offline.

The gathering comes just four days after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in Manchester, an attack “that demonstrates that we must now redouble our efforts,” the leaders said in a statement after the first day of talks. They pledged to tackle the risk posed by fighters as they disperse from the battlefields of Syria, Libya and elsewhere.

The show of unity comes as the UK is still on the highest alert for further terrorist attacks,