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Social media firms failed to alert police to any suspicious terrorist activity on their platforms for four years, the UK’s former head of counter-terrorism reveals today, as he demands they face financial penalties.
Sir Mark Rowley, who headed Britain’s anti-terror police until earlier this year, said their failure to pass on information had been “wholly irresponsible” and put lives at risk.
Sir Mark oversaw police investigations into all recent major terror attacks, including the Manchester Arena bombing that claimed 22 lives, the Westminster Bridge attack in which Pc Keith Palmer was stabbed to death by terrorist Khalid Masood, and the London Bridge attack in which eight people died.