Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company’s biggest market. On Feb. 4, 2019, a Facebook researcher created a new user account to see what it was like to experience the social media site as a person living in Kerala, India. For the next three […]
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Gaming sites are still letting streamers profit from hate
Enlarge MrLonelyWalker | Getty Images In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to amplify and monetize hate in what has become known […]
Social media giants grilled on hate content
EPA Social network executives have been grilled by MPs on the role their platforms played in recent events in Washington which saw a mob break into Congress. All said that they needed to do more to monitor extremist groups and content such as conspiracy theories. But none had any radical new policies to offer. The […]
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech policies. The community or “subreddit,” called “The_Donald,” is home to more than 790,000 users who post memes, viral videos and supportive messages […]
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip review—I think I hate flip phones
The Galaxy Z Flip. Ron Amadeo It’s very bendy. Ron Amadeo Here it is, all flattened out. Ron Amadeo The display might be glass, but there is still a crease. in the center. Ron Amadeo Check out this outrageous color-changing paint job Ron Amadeo The front display is very tiny. Too tiny to do much […]
Congress subpoenas 8chan owner to testify about mass shootings, online hate
A makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso earlier this month. (John Locher/AP) August 14 at 5:59 PM The House Homeland Security Committee subpoenaed the owner of the website 8chan on Wednesday to testify before lawmakers next month, heightening the scrutiny on an anonymous message board […]
Legal Shield for Websites Rattles Under Onslaught of Hate Speech
When the most consequential law governing speech on the internet was created in 1996, Google.com didn’t exist and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old. The federal law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, has helped Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and countless other internet companies flourish. But Section 230’s legal protection has also extended to fringe […]
Twitter’s New Rules Seek To Curb Hate Speech Targeting Religious Groups
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MPs call for urgent action over homophobia hate crime after TOWIE star’s petition
Media playback is unsupported on your device MPs have called for “urgent action” from the government to fight the rise in online homophobia. The Commons debate followed a petition calling for a new law – organised by reality TV star Bobby Norris. The Only Way Is Essex cast member said he had been spurred into […]
When Rohingya Refugees Fled to India, Hate on Facebook Followed
KOLKATA, India — Mohammad Salim, a Rohingya Muslim refugee, thought he had left genocidal violence and Facebook vitriol behind when he fled his native country, Myanmar, in 2013. But lately, his new home, India’s West Bengal state, has not felt much safer. And once again, Facebook is a big part of the problem. During India’s […]
No fooling: Reddit’s r/games goes silent for one day to call out hate, bigotry
Enlarge / An official Reddit “Snoo” mascot was used to advertise the site’s gaming content in 2018. Today, it’s got duct tape on its mouth for a reason. Reddit / Sam Machkovech The Internet may have already begun exploding due to April Fools’ Day pranks, but one site’s April 1st gesture is decidedly not a […]
Facebook Monitoring Failure Helped Spread Christchurch Hate Around The World
One of the most horrific massacre videos in human history was live-streamed on Facebook for 17 excruciating minutes — despite recent raves by executives that the company has become a crack content monitor. The film wasn’t yanked until New Zealand police informed Facebook that a gunman was filming live Thursday during an attack at two […]
Where Kids Find Hate Online — And Tips For How To Handle It
By Caroline Knorr, Common Sense Media Hate speech is all over the internet. Fueled by trolls, extremists, false information, and a group mentality, this kind of cruelty against a religion, ethnicity, sexual identity, gender, race ― or anything, really ― has reached a fever pitch. And while some kids will be attacked, and some may […]
Brazil Wants Steam to Pull Beat 'Em Up Game for Promoting Hate
Valve’s decision to no longer censor games on the Steam store is facing a test Brazil. Local officials are calling on the company to stop selling an indie game that features a right-wing presidential candidate beating up his political opponents, including gays and feminists. The game, Bolsomito 2K18, lets you take control of a parody […]
Current tech for detecting hate speech is woefully inadequate, researchers find
Exactly what constitutes hate speech is one of the most hotly contested topics in 2018. One of the reasons it is so vigorously debated is because of how difficult it can be to define. If humans find hate speech difficult to define, machines find it even more more of a chore, as a new survey of […]