Anti-terror cops are shutting down more than 1,000 websites and social media accounts linked to ISIS every week, it has been reported.
The numbers reveal the staggering scale of the battle being waged online by security services.
Websites, Facebook and Twitter accounts are frequently used by ISIS to promote its propaganda.
Huge efforts are being made to seduce young Brits to leave the UK for the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
According to the Star on Sunday, the latest figures show 55,000 sites hosting extremist material were taken down in 2015.
The Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit – a police squad which fights online extremism – has removed 140,000 items of propaganda in the past five years.
The vast majority was linked to Islamic extremism.
Security minister John Hayes told the paper: “We have seen an increase in the scale and pace of terrorist communications by groups like Isis, encouraging vulnerable young people to travel to confl ict zones like Syria and Iraq.
“This government takes seriously the threat from online terrorist and extremist propaganda.”
But Mr Hayes said internet service providers and social media companies must do more to ban terrorist material.
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