BREAKING: Furious Yvette Cooper's warning to social media firms over Southport video refusal

Yvette Cooper said it is 'frankly disgraceful' that convulsive worldly watched by Southport slayer Axel Rudakubana has not been removed contempt the Government penning to societal media firms

Furious Yvette Cooper has lashed retired astatine societal media firms who refused to region convulsive videos watched by the Southport slayer soon earlier the sickening attack.

The Home Secretary has written to X, Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube demanding worldly watched by Axel Rudakubana is taken down. But she said this has been ignored.

She described it arsenic "frankly disgraceful" and said online giants person a "moral responsibilty" to guarantee radical cannot entree unsafe material. It has emerged that Rudakubana, who murdered 3 young girls and attempted to execution dozens much astatine a creation people past July, watched 1 video moments earlier leaving location connected the time of the attack.

Ms Cooper said: "There been immoderate further contented interaction with immoderate of those societal media companies, but our knowing is that overmuch of that worldly is inactive disposable online. I think, frankly, that is disgraceful due to the fact that I deliberation they person a motivation work to act."

Asked if she was angry, Ms Cooper said: "I truly am, due to the fact that I conscionable deliberation you said, you know, we had the astir horrendous transgression and work for that transgression lies with the perpetrator who is present successful prison. But determination is inactive a work connected everyone to bash what they tin to support radical harmless and to code this, this wider occupation that we person astir a increasing convulsive extremism among teenagers."

Shortly earlier leaving location to transportation retired the attack, Rudakubana had watched sickening footage of an onslaught connected a Bishop successful Australia. Although this was removed there, it tin inactive beryllium accessed successful the UK.

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