Facebook met with the civil rights groups leading an ad boycott on Tuesday. The groups went in with ten demands, of which Facebook only addressed one: hiring a C-suite level civil rights exec. Facebook said it would make the hire but wouldn’t commit to making the position C-suite. The civil […]
Facebook’s top executives met Tuesday with civil-rights groups, hoping to address their concerns about the company’s approach to hate speech on its platform. But the groups called the meeting a “disappointment” and said it became clear that Facebook “is not yet ready to address the vitriolic hate on their platform.” […]
Verizon has pulled its advertising from Facebook, joining a growing list of companies boycotting the social-media firm over its content moderation. A group of six nonprofit organisations started the boycott last week, calling on companies to withdraw their advertising over the spread of hate speech and misinformation on Facebook. On […]
The Anti-Defamation League’s statistics about extremism have been cited as authoritative by much of the press, including its most publicized claim that nearly three-quarters of extremist killings in the US over the past decade have been committed by “right-wing extremists,” a category that includes white nationalists. But if you define […]
The New York Times reported Tuesday that in a bid to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses President Donald Trump was planning to reclassify Judaism as a nationality. The move would apparently close a loophole within Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which governs discrimination against people on the basis […]
In 24 minutes, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen completely tore apart Facebook’s defence for not policing disinformation that exists on its website. Cohen also made the case to regulate the world’s multi-billion-dollar tech companies like Google and YouTube, as well as the people who run them, who he called the “Silicon […]
Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had harsh words for the country’s biggest tech companies while accepting the International Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday. Cohen criticised online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google for generating “the greatest propaganda machine in history,” and giving violent extremists a platform […]
PewDiePie initially announced this week that he would donate $US50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish anti-hate group. But the YouTuber said in a video posted Thursday that he was rescinding his pledge after his announcement drew backlash – some of it anti-Semitic and based in conspiracy theories – from […]
The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday released a new study about online gaming. It shows that the majority of people who play games online experience at least some form of harassment, with about two-thirds of people surveyed saying it’s “severe.” People also reported harassment that was based on their gender, race, […]
Banding together.
No Christmas carols.
