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Facebook algorithm 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content, study finds
Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a counter-extremist group, found Facebook’s algorithm recommends ...
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A play-by-play account of Facebook's hate speech controversy in India (Updated)
Update (31/08/2020): A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggested that just before Narendra Modi won the 2014 national ...
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How Facebook's Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence
Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told TNW about the latest developments at FAIR, the social network's research lab. ...
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Facebook blames COVID-19 for reduced action on suicide, self-injury, and child exploitation content
Facebook says that COVID-19 has hindered its ability to remove posts about suicide, self-injury, and child nudity and ...
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Facebook removes 3 white supremacist band pages — leaves (at least) 117 others
Al Jazeera investigation reveals 120 Facebook pages for heavy-metal bands that violate the platform's hate speech policies ...
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Twitter sees 900% increase in hate speech towards China — because coronavirus
US President Donald Trump has often labeled the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus." However, he's not alone in blaming China, ...
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Twitter expands hate speech guidelines to include disability, illness, and age
Twitter today updated its rules on hate speech to include dehumanizing language against several new groups of people -- specifically ...
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YouTube now bans 'veiled threats' against content creators
It's that time of year for looking back and seeing what happened in 2019. And given that YouTube was raked over the coals ...
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YouTube purges 17,000 hate speech channels after policy change
YouTube this week issued an update on its efforts to remove hate speech from its platform -- and it would appear it's managed ...
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In a first, Facebook will hand over hate speech data to France
Facebook has agreed to hand over identifying information on French users suspected of using hate speech on its social network. ...
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YouTube is making it easier to remove recommendations you don't like
YouTube has new ways to fine-tune browsing experience on the site — adds ability to remove channel suggestions and offer ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
