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Online Hate Against South Asian Americans Rises Steadily: Report
Online hate against Americans of South Asian ancestry has risen steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the rise of politicians from that community to prominence, according to a report released on Wednesday by nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate.
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Online Manipulation, Hate Must Stop: UN Conference
Digital platforms have changed how we interact, and urgent action is needed to stop the manipulation of users and hate speech, a UN conference in Paris heard today.
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"Forgive Them": Rahul Gandhi To Mohammad Shami On Online Hate Attack
Mohammad Shami, who was viciously attacked online after India lost to Pakistan in their T20 World Cup opening match, found some belated TLC from both politicians and sporting heroes.
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Facebook Accused of Favourable Treatment of BJP by Congress, Parliamentary Panel Probe Sought
Congress party called on Sunday for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it said was favourable treatment by Facebook's India team towards the country's ruling party.
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Facebook Tells Delhi High Court It Has Fake News, Hate Speech Detection Measures in Place
Facebook has claimed in the Delhi High court that it has installed measures to detect and prevent spread of hate speech, fake news and more inappropriate or objectionable content.
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Facebook Not Doing Enough to Fight Discrimination, Audit Says
Facebook has not done enough to fight discrimination on its platform and some of its decisions were setbacks for civil rights, according to an independent audit commissioned by the company, the New York Times reported.
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YouTube Shuts Down Far-Right Channels Over Hate Speech
YouTube on Monday shut down six far-right channels for violating rules against "supremacist" content, booting videos by David Duke, Stefan Molyneux and Richard Spencer.
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Reddit Bans r/The_Donald Group Amid Broad Social Media Crackdown
Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site's hate speech rules.
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Ratan Tata Praised For Speaking Up Against Online Hate And Bullying
Ratan Tata has earned praise on social media for speaking out against online bullying. In a post shared on his official Instagram account on Sunday, the Chairman of Tata Trusts appealed for empathy and urged social media users to display more "kindness" while dealing with each other.
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India Joins Global Fight In Action Against Online Extremism
In a bid to join the global fight against violent extremist content, India joined an initiative that calls for action to eliminate such content online.
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UN Chief Says Hate Speech On Internet "Spreads Like Wildfire"
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that hatred speech has been spreading like wildfire through the Internet, saying attention should be given to "physical aggression's" as the recent attacks against the Jewish, Christian or Muslim centres.
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Twitter's Internal Numbers Show It's Getting Less Awful at Fighting Abuse
Twitter has the reputation for being a hotbed for online abuse and for having a lot of trouble containing it.
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YouTube to Implement More Measures to Identify and Remove Terrorist or Violent Extremist Content
The company will also employ more engineering resources and increase its use of technology to help identify extremist videos.
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Facebook Is Using AI to Make the Social Network a 'Hostile Place for Terrorists'
Britain's interior ministry welcomed Facebook's efforts but said technology companies needed to go further.
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Social Media Firms Have Increased Removal of Hate Speech, Says EU
Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said the proportion of offending items taken down had doubled and action was being taken more quickly than when the EU checked six months ago.
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Online Hate Against South Asian Americans Rises Steadily: Report
Online hate against Americans of South Asian ancestry has risen steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the rise of politicians from that community to prominence, according to a report released on Wednesday by nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate.
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Online Manipulation, Hate Must Stop: UN Conference
Digital platforms have changed how we interact, and urgent action is needed to stop the manipulation of users and hate speech, a UN conference in Paris heard today.
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"Forgive Them": Rahul Gandhi To Mohammad Shami On Online Hate Attack
Mohammad Shami, who was viciously attacked online after India lost to Pakistan in their T20 World Cup opening match, found some belated TLC from both politicians and sporting heroes.
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Facebook Accused of Favourable Treatment of BJP by Congress, Parliamentary Panel Probe Sought
Congress party called on Sunday for a parliamentary panel to investigate what it said was favourable treatment by Facebook's India team towards the country's ruling party.
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Facebook Tells Delhi High Court It Has Fake News, Hate Speech Detection Measures in Place
Facebook has claimed in the Delhi High court that it has installed measures to detect and prevent spread of hate speech, fake news and more inappropriate or objectionable content.
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Facebook Not Doing Enough to Fight Discrimination, Audit Says
Facebook has not done enough to fight discrimination on its platform and some of its decisions were setbacks for civil rights, according to an independent audit commissioned by the company, the New York Times reported.
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YouTube Shuts Down Far-Right Channels Over Hate Speech
YouTube on Monday shut down six far-right channels for violating rules against "supremacist" content, booting videos by David Duke, Stefan Molyneux and Richard Spencer.
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Reddit Bans r/The_Donald Group Amid Broad Social Media Crackdown
Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site's hate speech rules.
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Ratan Tata Praised For Speaking Up Against Online Hate And Bullying
Ratan Tata has earned praise on social media for speaking out against online bullying. In a post shared on his official Instagram account on Sunday, the Chairman of Tata Trusts appealed for empathy and urged social media users to display more "kindness" while dealing with each other.
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India Joins Global Fight In Action Against Online Extremism
In a bid to join the global fight against violent extremist content, India joined an initiative that calls for action to eliminate such content online.
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UN Chief Says Hate Speech On Internet "Spreads Like Wildfire"
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that hatred speech has been spreading like wildfire through the Internet, saying attention should be given to "physical aggression's" as the recent attacks against the Jewish, Christian or Muslim centres.
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Twitter's Internal Numbers Show It's Getting Less Awful at Fighting Abuse
Twitter has the reputation for being a hotbed for online abuse and for having a lot of trouble containing it.
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YouTube to Implement More Measures to Identify and Remove Terrorist or Violent Extremist Content
The company will also employ more engineering resources and increase its use of technology to help identify extremist videos.
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Facebook Is Using AI to Make the Social Network a 'Hostile Place for Terrorists'
Britain's interior ministry welcomed Facebook's efforts but said technology companies needed to go further.
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Social Media Firms Have Increased Removal of Hate Speech, Says EU
Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said the proportion of offending items taken down had doubled and action was being taken more quickly than when the EU checked six months ago.
