freedom of speech
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Twitter Threatens to Sue Hate Speech Researchers as It Unbans Kanye West
Elon Musk’s lawyer sent a letter threatening to sue a hate speech research group in late July, accusing the organisation of making “false and misleading claims” about Twitter in order to help the company’s competitors. Shortly after, Twitter unbanned Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, whom Musk kicked off the platform for tweeting…
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Facebook Pushes Back Against Report That Claims Its AI Sucks at Detecting Hate Speech
On Sunday, Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen tooted the social media company’s own horn for moderating toxic content, writing in a blog post that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform has fallen by nearly half since July 2020. The post appeared to be in response to a series of damning Wall…
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Trump Might Be Banned But He’s Still On Twitter
There was a lot of song and dance over the weekend about US President Donald Trump being banned from Twitter. Some people claimed it was censorship, others thought it was way too late. But the endless galaxy brain takes that ‘Trump has been silenced’ have been very much undermined by the continued presence of Trump…
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YouTube Has A New Naughty Corner For Controversial Religious And Supremacist Videos
Today, YouTube clarified how it plans to handle videos that don’t violate any of its policies but still contain offensive religious and supremacist content: Hide them and make sure they can’t make any money.