Maya Shwayder / Digital Trends: Decentralizing Twitter won’t solve its hate speech problems; Mastodon CEO: “it sounds like Twitter is making a Mastodon clone” — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated …
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News: Susan Wojcicki on YouTube’s stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends — …
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Facebook says 80% of hate speech removed in the past quarter was identified by software, up 68% QoQ; 4.4M drug-related posts were taken down, a big …
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BBC: Some popular Twitter users in India announce a move to Mastodon to protest Twitter’s inconsistent content moderation policies on issues such as hate speech — Some of India’s most …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Report analyzing 800 Facebook posts about the Assam region in North India finds 26.5% constituted hate speech, and were shared 99K+ times with 5.4M views — …
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Steven Levy / Wired: Dave Willner, who helped put together Facebook’s content standards over a decade ago, says its exemption of politicians’ hate speech is “cowardice” — Dave Willner helped …
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Jason Parham / Wired: A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech …
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times: Facebook imposed a 24-hour ban on a chatbot operated by the official account of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for violating hate speech rules …
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Makena Kelly / The Verge: In a testimony to House committee staffers, 8chan owner Jim Watkins says 8chan “has no intent of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech” — The private …
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Paris Martineau / Wired: YouTube’s championing of its total number of takedowns for hate speech misses the point: hateful content often comes from high profile accounts — YouTube said a …
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