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Facebook cooperates with authorities the vast majority of the time when the government asks the network to remove content inciting to terrorism, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Monday.
She made the comments shortly after she and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan met with a senior delegation from the social media site.
According to Shaked, Facebook removed 95 percent of 158 inciting posts, and YouTube, owned by Google, removed 80 percent of 13 videos, at the government's request.
"These are impressive numbers; however, we understand that there is too much online incitement, and we must continue to increase our efforts," Shaked said at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism's World Summit at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Because the online contact inciting to terrorism is shared widely, every minute that they are online is dangerous and provokes more terrorism, Shaked added.
"Digital and economic efforts to fight terrorism are no less important than military efforts," Shaked stated. "Terrorism in 2016 needs a response that's up-to-date for 2016."
Shaked and Erdan and officials in their ministries met with Facebook's Joel Kaplan, vice president of global public policy, and Monika Bickert, head of product policy and counter-terrorism.
Erdan courted controversy in July by saying that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has "blood on his hands" following a terrorist attack, but his office characterized the meeting with the social network's executives as successful.
"Facebook and Internet companies are responsible for content that is published on their platforms that encourage terrorism and incite, and they must behave actively in order to find and remove them," Erdan stated. "In the last wave of terrorism, we saw that the Internet turned into a breeding ground for terrorism, and we must fight together to prevent it."
Social media companies "can and must do much more," Erdan added.
The ministers and executives agreed to...