Google calls for anti-Isis push and makes YouTube propaganda pledge

Executives vow video site will not be used as a platform for 'brutally violent propaganda produced by terrorists', but argue against blanket censorship

Google has issued a call to arms against Isis, arguing that the terror group has engineered a "viral moment" on social networks with propaganda and beheading videos that needs to be challenged.

Two of Google's top executives - legal chief David Drummond and policy director Victoria Grand - used the Cannes Lions advertising festival to launch an attack, and appeal, against terrorist propaganda on Google-owned YouTube.