Ed Balls interviews his wife Yvette Cooper on GMB

ITV accused of bias as GMB's Ed Balls interviews government minister wife Yvette CooperGood Morning Britain/ ITV

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00:00There have been identifiable individuals on social media who have been inciting not just

00:06riot but violence. They've been using racist language, they've been using falsehoods about

00:12what happened in Southport. This is happening on the social media platforms. What can be done,

00:20what should be done now by the social media companies and the police and the government

00:24to stop this happening because it's been happening for a week?

00:27Well, you're right, Ed, that we have seen these, what things that are appearing online that are

00:34clearly criminal, that social media has put rocket boosters under the far-right extremist

00:41organisation and also some of the violence that we have seen organising some of the violence.

00:47Things that are criminal offline are also criminal online. So we also expect the police to be

00:55pursuing criminality, illegal material that is online and to make sure that they also face the

01:02full force of the law. And there's also an issue about social media companies here.

01:05They have to take much greater responsibility for what is happening on their platforms that,

01:11frankly, they make huge amounts of money from and therefore they need to take much

01:15greater responsibility. We're going to be pursuing that with the social media companies this week as

01:20well.