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Zuckerberg, After Defending Holocaust Denial, Claims He’ll Ban It
By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The responsibility of hunting down posts containing spam and porn fell to a team of 150 entry-level workers. Four years later, it was paying contractors in countries like Turkey, Mexico, and India $US1 ($1.40) an hour to scan for…
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Facebook Ad Boycott Will Go on After Zuckerberg, Sandberg Blow Off Civil Rights Groups’ Demands
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook — the social media company you may recognise from United Nations accusations of complicity in genocide and its role in recklessly flooding the web with conspiracy theories and extremism — predictably failed to placate a coalition of civil rights groups leading an ad boycott at a…
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Shitty Person Wins Case Against UK Police Who Warned Him About His Transphobic Tweets
A high court in the UK ruled on Friday that police should not have visited a man who sent out “transphobic” tweets at his place of work and that they had a “substantial chilling effect” by doing so, the Guardian reported.
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YouTuber Gives Fake Award To Far Right Activist Who Calls Greta Thunberg An ‘Autistic Fucking Wench’
YouTuber Josh Pieters has revealed that he pranked far right British commentator Katie Hopkins by flying her to Prague and presenting her with a fake award. Hopkins, who is frequently retweeted by President Trump and was recently suspended on Twitter, was awarded with the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, abbreviated as C.U.N.T. And if…