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Anti-racists say: Shut racism down

ANTI-RACISTS urged money-making sites such as Twitter and Facebook yesterday to ban the perpetrators of Islamophobic, anti-semitic and racist hate online.

They accused social media sites of often giving “free rein” to those spreading racist views, while the responsibility for reporting hatemongering accounts currently lies with users.

Campaign group Hope Not Hate has warned that, unless corporations stop giving space to hate merchants, the far right will creep further into the mainstream and continue to grow.

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