Social media chiefs grilled over UK riots

 

The makers of BlackBerry have admitted social media could be used for "malicious purposes" but the vast majority of users are law-abiding, during a grilling by British MPs on August's riots. Stephen Bates, managing director of Research in Motion in Britain and Ireland, insisted on Thursday social media was generally a "force for good", a position backed by executives from Facebook and Twitter during the hearing in London. "There's no dispute that... social media was used for malicious purposes," Bates told parliament's home affairs committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the four nights of unprecedented riots in English cities.

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