Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find (Published 2022)
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day. And antisemitic posts referring to Jews
As hate speech cases make headlines, experts say the problem isn't lack of laws but political will.
X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news
Elon Musk. The European Commission asked X to provide evidence of compliance with the new laws. Photograph: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Google may pull 'fediverse' Android apps for allegedly enabling hate speech (updated)
Google has stepped up its fight against hate speech, but there are concerns that it might be too aggressive. As Private Internet Access reports, Google has warned it will pull multiple “fediverse” apps (groups of interconnected servers used for web publishing) from the Play Store for allegedly inciting hate speech. Android titles like Fedilab, Husky, and Subway Tooter purportedly help users connec
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit (Published 2020)
“The_Donald” subreddit, now banned by Reddit, is home to more than 790,000 users who post memes, viral videos and supportive messages about President Trump.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech p
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GitHub - undp/iVerify-Apps: iVerify Apps: Apps that support the AI-powered iVerify platform to combat misinformation and hate speech
IVerify processes articles and outputs reports with a determination of their veracity. The inputs are either manual, by members of the public or the iVerify team, or automated. People can submit articles for review via text (WhatsApp, SMS, and more) or directly through the iVerify platform. Leveraging CrowdTangle, which allows iVerify to track public content across social media, iVerify also autom
Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users: Report
Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia. Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) flagged hate speech to the company in tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. Four days later, they say, 99 percent of the tweets were still up and none
Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
Reddit alternative Voat shut down on Christmas Day, citing a lack of operational funding, and casting doubt on the abilities of other similar almost-anything-goes, "free speech" platforms to stay online in the long run. "I just can't keep it up," Voat cofounder Justin Chastain said in the shutdown announcement. Investment dried up in March 2020, he explained. "I personally decided to keep Voat up
JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS - Countering illegal hate speech online #NoPlace4Hate
To prevent and counter the spread of illegal hate speech online, in May 2016, the Commission agreed with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube a “Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” to help users notifying illegal hate speech in this social platforms, improve the support to civil society as well as the coordination with national authorities. The four platforms agreed to a
Twitter will block links promoting hate speech and violence
Twitter is closing a loophole in its rules to make it harder for users to spread hate speech and violent content. The company is updating its policies to ban links to content that promotes violence and hateful conduct. Twitter already had rules in place barring hateful conduct and violence in tweets, but the policy didn’t extend to linked content. So users could effectively skirt Twitter’s policie
Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech | TechCrunch
Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech Elon Musk’s Twitter could be on the hook for a pipeline of multimillion-dollar penalties for failing to take down illegal hate speech in Germany. Fines could even stack up to billions if the federal government acts on the scores of cases of content moderation inaction that have already been reported to it and German courts c
Ubuntu discovers 'hate speech' in release 23.10 — how to upgrade?
HomeNewsSecurityUbuntu discovers 'hate speech' in release 23.10 — how to upgrade? Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, has pulled its Desktop release 23.10 after its Ukrainian translations were discovered to contain hate speech. According to the Ubuntu project, a malicious contributor is behind anti-Semitic, homophobic, and xenophobic slurs that were injected into the distro via a "third p
On the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide: “Hate Speech in Bahrain: A Warning Prelude to Genocide Crimes” - Tehran Times
On the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide: “Hate Speech in Bahrain: A Warning Prelude to Genocide Crimes” On December 9 of each year, the world commemorates the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime,” to prevent genocide and the conflicts that lead to it. The Bahrain Interfaith
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