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Google blocks terms associated with hate speech from being used as ad keywords on YouTube
Tech giant Google said it has blocked several terms associated with hate speech from being used as …
A French court has fined a far-right presidential candidate over hate speech and convicted him of inciting racial hatred
In 2020, candidate Éric Zemmour had called unaccompanied migrants "thieves," "killers," and "rapist…
Rebecca Ungarino
TikTok explicitly calls out white nationalism, white genocide theory, and male supremacy as hate speech
Big Tech platforms are rushing to update policies and try and stem a flood of hate speech.
Chris Stokel-Walker
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
Parler is back on the App Store with a 'PG' version that only cracks down on hate speech on Apple devices
Parler returned to Apple’s App Store on Monday after it had been kicked off following the January 6…
Grace Kay
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
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
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…