Online Hate Speech
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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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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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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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Government Asks Citizens Not to Forward Malicious Content on Social Media
"You need not wear the uniform to be a soldier of this country, you need not go to the borders now, because the enemy can actually strike in your home (through social media)."
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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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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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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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Government Asks Citizens Not to Forward Malicious Content on Social Media
"You need not wear the uniform to be a soldier of this country, you need not go to the borders now, because the enemy can actually strike in your home (through social media)."
