Claim: 250,000 pieces of extremist material have been taken down from the Internet since February 2010.
Fact-check: Removing extremist online material - Full Fact
Verdict: as of 21 december 2016, 249,091 pieces of extremist content have been taken down by the counter terrorism internet referral unit, according to official figures.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Charlotte Browning
Date published: 2017-03-29T00:00:00