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Facebook users who were not searching for information on QAnon were redirected to an extensive primer on the…
Oct 20
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A pair of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the latest bill proposing to amend Section 230 of the…
Oct 12
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By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The…
Aug 19
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President Donald Trump congratulated anti-Muslim hatemonger Laura Loomer over Twitter last night for winning the…
Aug 12
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A month after Facebook reached a breaking point with civil rights leaders over its failures to police its platform…
Jul 7
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook—the social media company you may recognize from United…
Jul 7
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Over the past decade and a half, we’ve watched Facebook mature from its halcyon era of “moving fast and breaking…
Feb 20
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Mashing the Facebook share or like buttons on defamatory content as well as anti-Semitic propaganda or other…
Feb 14
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A high court in the UK ruled on Friday that police should not have visited a man who sent out transphobic tweets at…
Jan 31
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YouTuber Gives Fake Award to Far-Right Activist Who Calls Greta Thunberg an 'Autistic Fucking Wench'
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YouTuber Josh Pieters has revealed that he pranked far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins by flying her to…
Jan 29
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an ominous message for the rest of us: You may not like me, but you will understand…
Jan 22
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Like most companies in the tech realm, Twitter is no stranger to weirdly hollow apologies. Some of the company’s…
Dec 13
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Back in September, Facebook blocked the account of Casapound, an Italian far-right party. Now, an Italian judge has…
Nov 22 2019
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Sacha Baron Cohen accepted an international leadership award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York last…
Nov 4 2019
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Technology’s fine—I definitely like texting, and some of the shows on Netflix are tolerable—but the field’s got some…
Sep 25 2019
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Facebook claims to be doing a lot to fight hate speech. But Facebook has also cashed nearly $1.6 million in ad money…
Aug 18 2019
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Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke wants to stem the spread of hate speech on the internet after several recent…
Aug 2 2019
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With the anniversary of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, approaching, Twitter is…
Jul 25 2019
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Last month, YouTube announced a site-wide change to its hate speech policy, saying it would no longer tolerate…
Jul 14 2019
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2019 Comic-Con International: San Diego is coming this week, which means our team will be on the ground, providing…