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“#France demands to know how Twitter will prevent hate speech” A French court has ordered Twitter to provide clear details on what it is doing to tackle hate speech, according to a court judgment obtained by Reuters, after several French lobby groups had asked Twitter to clamp down more on hateful content. The court ruling, which…
“#Instagram launches profanity filter to fight abuse on platform” Instagram said Wednesday that it will soon unveil a new feature that will filter offensive words, phrases and emojis from direct messages. The profanity filter will also make it harder for trolls who are already blocked to contact people by creating new accounts. Although the Facebook-owned…
“#NYPD detective sues man over racist harassment” An Asian NYPD detective is suing a man who was allegedly captured on camera spewing racist slurs at the 16-year veteran. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday, says Terrell Harper harassed him repeatedly during a demonstration on March 11, calling the cop a “goddamn cat eater”…
“#Muslim civil rights group sues Facebook over hate speech” A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive” statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules. The lawsuit, filed by Muslim Advocates in Washington,…
“#Send cops to people’s doors to lecture on hate speech” Shootings are soaring, but Mayor Bill de Blasio figures sending cops to knock on citizens’ doors and lecture them about their hateful speech is a wise move. This was de Blasio’s idea of how to react to the horrific massacre in Atlanta: Officers can prevent…
“#Facebook’s ‘anti-hate’ algorithm assumes only some bigotry matters” Facebook is overhauling its algorithms for removing hate speech, The Washington Post reports, because policies it thought were race-blind were upsetting a lot of black users and employees. Specifically, it’s telling its robots to focus on “the worst of the worst,” according to internal documents the paper…
“#Facebook said It would ban holocaust deniers. Instead, its algorithm provided a network for them” Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” as part of its larger policy prohibiting hate speech. While noting that successful enforcement could take time, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice…
“#Malaysian lawmaker calls for hate speech law after Reuters’ Rohingya report” KUALA LUMPUR – An opposition lawmaker called on Tuesday for Malaysia to outlaw online hate speech, accusing authorities of downplaying the gravity of an issue highlighted by a Reuters investigation into abuse on Facebook of Rohingya refugees and undocumented migrants. Citing the Reuters report…
“#Facebook estimates hate speech seen in 1 out of 1000 views on its platform” Facebook for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000 content views in the third quarter, 10 to 11 included hate speech. The world’s largest social media…
“#Anti-Semitic Alaskan man ordered to take Holocaust classes in prison” An anti-Semitic Alaskan man was required to learn about the Holocaust as part of a prison sentence for illegally owning a machine gun and silencers. Michael Graves, 21, of Anchorage — who posted tweets calling for violence against Jews and Muslims last year — was…