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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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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 removes nearly 200 accounts tied to hate groups
Facebook has removed nearly 200 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups that planned…
PTI
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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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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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20 state attorneys general are demanding that Facebook improve its policing of online hate speech and disinformation
Facebook is facing mounting political and regulatory pressure over its failures to police its socia…
Rob Price
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Facebook created more than 10,000 'hateful memes' to help researchers learn how to spot hate speech
Facebook wants researchers to harness the racist, sexist, and hateful memes for a good cause.
Rob Price
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Facebook is changing its 'race-blind' hate speech algorithm to prioritize flagging content it deems 'the worst of the worst,' after backlash over removing Black users' posts
Rather than automatically flagging posts like 'men are trash,' the platform is focusing on curtaili…
Isabella Jibilian
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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 says it will now ban 'implicit hate speech' like blackface and anti-Semitic stereotypes
Facebook has faced mounting pressure from civil rights groups to ramp up its enforcement of anti-ha…
Aaron Holmes
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Facebook has apologized for flagging parts of the Declaration of Independence as hate speech
The Vindicator, a small community newspaper in Liberty County, Texas, started posting excerpts of t…
Rachel Sandler
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A mysterious glitch on Facebook asked if every single post was 'hate speech'
Facebook has struggled with hate speech on its platform. Last week, it published its previously sec…
Kif Leswing
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Facebook's leaked rules on censoring hate speech protect 'white men' but not 'black children'
When asked for comment on ProPublica's report, a Facebook representative directed Business Insider …
Alex Heath
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Unilever is halting ads on Facebook and Twitter in the US for the rest of 2020. It's one of the biggest companies to pull ads over hate-speech concerns, joining Verizon, Patagonia, and others.
Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Ben & Jerry's, joins Verizon and Patagonia in saying it w…
Aaron Holmes
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Civil-rights groups are calling their meeting with Facebook execs a 'disappointment' and say the company isn't ready to address the platform's 'vitriolic hate'
The groups said the Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Chris Cox "showed up …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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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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Facebook knew it had a huge problem with hateful groups 5 months ahead of the Capitol riot, internal docs show
Facebook staff told execs in August that 70% of top political groups were full of hate speech, misi…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Why Facebook categorizes phrases like 'men are trash' as hate speech, according to Mark Zuckerberg
In the past, Facebook's hate speech policy has been unclear, and the company has faced criticism fo…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Kim Kardashian slams Instagram and Facebook for allowing 'the spreading of hate' and says she's freezing her accounts in protest
"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our dem…