Oregon legislature passed a series of reforms, policy changes, and civil rights protection during this year’s five-month legislature, including new laws that promote affordable housing, improve police oversight, and make it explicitly illegal to intimidate ...
Online hate speech has been a problem since the dawn of the internet, although the problem has metastasized in recent years. For the past five years, social media has fueled right-wing extremism, and more recently ...
Darya foroohar / The Chicago Maroon I finally gave in last spring. After months of nagging friends, the boredom caused by COVID-19, and the irritation of not understanding this dizzyingly complicated hand dance, everyone seemed ...
Facebook defines hate speech as any content that directly attacks people based on “protected characteristics, including race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender, gender identity, or severe disability or illness”. “Direct attacks” include ...
New Delhi, India – Last week, right-wing Hindu forces in India forced a leading company to pull out of advertising for the Christmas season after it contained some words from the Urdu language, which is ...
Facebook and other social media platforms cannot stop all disinformation and hatred on the internet. But they can put an end to fanning the flames. On Tuesday, the former Facebook project manager Frances Haugen gave ...
Facebook is in the spotlight for both the right and the wrong reasons. The wrong reason is that what should be a small configuration change took time Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down last week for ...
Whenever we think about how hate speech and fake news are affecting our democracy, we must also look at how inappropriate journalism is practiced in Nigeria. Journalism is the creation and dissemination of reports on ...
In the pre-digital days, advertising agencies were ruled by boastful creative directors who fed themselves with lavish client contracts and sometimes created campaigns that set the cultural agenda and captivated the public. Almost every piece ...
BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) – Google announced on Tuesday that it was taking legal action against a recently amended version of the German Hate Speech Act, as its provisions violate the privacy of its users. ...
