facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder
Technology YouTube bans 6 channels for hate speech, white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer among them Xeni Jardin
scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow
nazis Hate speech on 4chan is up by 40% since 2015, analysis of one million comments finds Xeni Jardin
Business Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, as 'dangerous' Xeni Jardin
racism Facebook says white nationalist and white separatist content now officially banned from platform Xeni Jardin
trump Federal judge: Lawsuit against Andrew Anglin of 'Daily Stormer' can proceed, Nazi hate speech isn't protected Xeni Jardin
Business Reddit 'quarantines' white supremacist, incel, holocaust denier, and other gross subreddits Xeni Jardin
law Twitter complies with Germany's new hate-speech laws by cutting off the account of a satirical magazine that mocks hate speech Cory Doctorow
censorship Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but not black children" Cory Doctorow
censorship Germany investigates Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over failure to remove hate posts Xeni Jardin
statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn
tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Business Facebook ad boycott includes Ben & Jerry's, REI, Patagonia, North Face, Eddie Bauer Xeni Jardin
white supremacists Noted white nationalist and guy who got punched in the face Richard Spencer is "financially crippled" from lawsuit Thom Dunn
