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• Hackers tweet Bitcoin nonsense and racism via Sweden's top political party

  The Twitter account of Sweden's governing party was hacked with cryptocurrency-related nonsense and wildly offensive hate ...

  • David Canellis

• Redditors are pissed (and delighted) about the temporary shutdown of its r/games subreddit

  Usually, being a gamer on the first of April is good fun -- jokes, memes, pranks about Half-Life 3. But the moderators of ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms

  Shortly after the terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook has committed to clamping down on white nationalism and white ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 4 ways social media platforms can stop hateful content after terror attacks

  The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook's global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities

  Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Memes are taking the alt-right’s message of hate mainstream

  Think of an internet meme and you’ll probably smile. The most memorable viral images are usually funny, from Distracted ...

  • The Conversation