SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that
US intelligence officials declassified documents on Tuesday revealing the National Security Agency violated privacy rules for three years when it sifted phone records of Americans with no suspected links to terrorists. The revelations raised fresh questions
The US government has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas for nearly six years from the nation’s largest internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple, in search of national