hate speech
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Court Says Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Group Is an Attack on Free Speech
A California court dismissed Elon Musk and X Corp.’s lawsuit against the Center for Counseling Digital Hate (CCDH) on Monday. The court ruled Musk was trying to “punish” researchers for criticizing X after the CCDH reported a rise in hate speech and misinformation on the platform. The lawsuit tried to blame the CCDH for pushing…
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Why We Struggle To Regulate Facebook
The Australian government’s recent warning to Facebook over misinformation is just the latest salvo in the seemingly constant battle to hold the social media giant to account for the content posted on its platform. It came in the same week as the US Senate heard whistleblowing testimony in which former Facebook executive Frances Haugen alleged…
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Rest In Peace, Facebook Ads Boycott (2020 — 2020)
This past summer, dozens of major brands pulled their ad dollars from Facebook in a protest of the company’s handling of the hate speech and disinformation. Apparently the company has done enough to win back one of its biggest fish: Unilever, which announced late last week that it would be picking up its ad campaigns…
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U.S. Democrats Say Facebook Algorithms Cradle Violent Extremists
A pair of U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the latest bill proposing to amend Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act on the grounds that algorithms used by social media platforms — namely, Facebook — have facilitated extremist violence across the country resulting in U.S. citizens being deprived of their constitutional rights.