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Researchers and Religious Figures Call for Social Media Changes to Tackle Hate Groups

09 Aug 2019
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Nathan Glover

Measures need to be taken to both identify and end hate speech online. It’s been less than a week since the violent shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The combined events claimed...

Twitter Updates Rules Against Hateful Conduct

10 Jul 2019
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Alison Lesley

Twitter will remove tweets dehumanizing religious groups Twitter becomes the third social media platform to take this stand after Facebook, and YouTube took action to curb hate speech. Critics,...

YouTube to Remove Videos Containing Supremacist Content

07 Jun 2019
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Alison Lesley

YouTube is placing stricter restrictions on the type of content available on its platform In its blog, the video sharing platform went into great detail on its policy against hate speech. YouTube...

Almost 30 Percent of anti-Semitic Tweets Come from Bots

05 Nov 2018
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Nathan Glover

Anti-Defamation League reports accounts repeating tweets against Jews are most likely bots. According to the Anti-Defamation League, The derogatory messages have certainly increased in recent years...

Civil Rights Groups Intensify Calls to Stop Online Hate Speech

30 Oct 2018
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Kelly Frazier

Activists want to end the spread of hate online. The latest call was undertaken hours after it was revealed the suspect in the Tree of Life Synagogue slayings spread hate speech on the website Gab.com....

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Right of Holocaust Deniers to Post on Facebook; Issues Statement to Clarify

19 Jul 2018
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Derek Welch

Facebook will just move hate content down in the News Feed In an interview with Recode, to publicize their point of view on the social networking site. His remarks predictably resulted in an online...

London Mayor Addresses Hate Speech during SXSW Talk

14 Mar 2018
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C Barnett

Sadiq Khan shows the need for curbing hate speech SXSW or South by Southwest Festival is mostly regarded by the general public as a music event, but in reality the festival has tracks for Interactive...

Anti-Semitism Has Risen to Historic Levels in America

28 Feb 2018
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C Barnett

ADL says the prevailing political climate has enabled hate to increase. New York City-headquartered Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has reported a staggering 57 percent jump in anti-Semitic incidents...

UK Politicians Want To Ban Evangelical Franklin Graham

08 Dec 2017
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C Barnett

Graham is Coming For A Speech, accused of spreading hate A number of United Kingdom Members of Parliament, along with many individuals in civil British society have requested the UK home secretary to bar Franklin...

Anger Over Allowing Muslim Prayer Rooms in Ontario Schools

02 Jul 2017
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Alison Lesley

Maximum flak from right wing Canadian groups It has gone so far that a person tore pages from a Quran. Islamophobic shouting was also heard during a public meeting held in March. The meeting soon...