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Facebook parent Meta’s systems fail to block anti-Muslim propaganda advertisements amid ongoing Lok Sabha elections, claims report
These ads contained violent rhetoric anywhere from targeting Muslim minorities, spreading disinform…
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TikTok is taking the US government to court in a showdown of free speech vs. national security
The TikTok-US government fight pits two pillars of American society against each other: free speech…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Zuck's birthday T-shirt is a tribute to ancient Rome, Facebook's history, and going hard
"Carthago delenda est" means "Carthage must be destroyed," a popular idea from Rome around 150 BC. …
Kieran Corcoran
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says Meta can't recover until Mark Zuckerberg steps down: report
Haugen, who took thousands of pages of documents about Facebook's practices when she left in May 20…
Sam Tabahriti
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Meta says it's set up a special team to deal with hate speech and misinformation related to Ukraine
"The situation in Ukraine is devastating," Meta's president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said in …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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India starts probe into Facebook’s algorithm, seeks info on moderation process
Social media giant Facebook has once again come under the scanner in India. The Indian government h…
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Internal documents reveal how Facebook struggled to deal with misinformation and hate speech in India
These reports were written by Facebook employees on their experiences of how the social media pl…
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Facebook claims it uses AI to identify and remove posts containing hate speech and violence, but the technology doesn't really work, report says
Facebook AI removes less than 5% of hate speech viewed on the social media platform, according to d…
Emily Walsh
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Facebook and Twitter told that freedom of speech is subject to reasonable restrictions by Indian government
He said all the social media platforms will have to adhere to the constitution of India. The…
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Facebook reportedly hasn't banned a violent religious extremist group in India because it fears for its business prospects and staff's safety
But Facebook hesitated to enforce those rules after its security team concluded that doing s…
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Musk says he's going to grant 'amnesty' to banned accounts as Twitter struggles to deal with hate speech
The Twitter owner said he would grant "amnesty" to almost all banned accounts after conducting a po…
Bianca Chan
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A $280 billion investment fund wants to boot all of Meta and Twitter's directors over their handling of the Buffalo shooting
Meta and Twitter failed to remove clips of the gunman's live-stream, the trustee of the New York St…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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10 Things in Tech: Meta's hate-speech shift
In today's edition: In a shift from parent company Meta's hate-speech policy, Instagram and Faceboo…
Jordan Parker Erb
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A Muslim advocacy group just sued Facebook for failing to remove hate-speech, and it's the latest example of the tech's patchwork polices that fail to crack down on Islamophobia
Muslim Advocates said it presented Facebook in 2017 with a list of 26 groups that spread anti-Musli…
Allana Akhtar
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Elon Musk says he'll match the law when it comes to free speech. Here's what you need to know about the EU's new content regulations.
Under the EU's Digital Services Act, large platforms like Twitter can be fined for failing to swift…
Cheryl Teh
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Facebook reportedly hasn't banned a violent religious extremist group in India because it fears for its business prospects and staff's safety
Facebook has been reluctant to enforce its rules in India over fears of political and even physical…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Trump's free speech social-media site plans to use AI to automatically censor some posts
Despite Trump's focus on attacking censorship and hitting out at tech platforms, Trump is drawing o…
Tom Porter
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Here are the first 6 cases on which the 'Supreme Court of Facebook' will have to rule
Announced in 2018, this committee's mission is to oversee the moderation of Facebook, in order…
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Facebook researchers wanted to block racist hate speech, but executives reportedly dismissed their solution to avoid backlash from 'conservative partners'
After a user called lawmakers like AOC "black c---s," employees sought to crush hate speech. Execut…
Katie Canales
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Twitter is removing less hate speech and taking longer to review it, fresh data on social media disinformation shows
The EU report suggests that Twitter was struggling to combat hate speech even before Elon Musk's ta…