Government-backed initiative aims to improve social media giants’ response to unsafe content
Tech giants including Google, Facebook and Snapchat will work alongside suicide prevention experts from the Samaritans in a new government-backed project aimed at limiting the impact of harmful online content.The new scheme forms part of a concerted cross-government effort to rein in the social media companies, amid growing concern over the prevalence of harmful content online across areas including terrorism, child abuse, self-harm and suicide.
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