Twitter, Google to ban content denying Srebrenica genocide: RFE

Youtube, Twitter say they are taking measures against behaviour that glorifies, minimises or denies the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia.

Twitter and Google intend to remove content that denies the genocide in Srebrenica from their platforms, according to a report by Radio Free Europe (RFE). RFE reported on Wednesday that Twitter and YouTube, responding to a request by the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada (IRGC), said the companies have a clearly established policy that “sanctions all hate speech”. On July 28, the IRGC had sent a request to tech giants Twitter and YouTube, owned by Google, requesting them to ban content from their platforms that “denies and distorts the truth about the genocide in Srebrenica”.