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December 28, 2018
Facebook’s massive hate speech policies were blasted by The New York Times Thursday. The Times detailed Facebook’s current hate-speech failsafe controls as essentially “a network of workers using a maze of Powerpoint slides…
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December 18, 2018
Facebook is more concerned about protecting Palestinians from hate speech than about hosting terrorist propaganda on its site.
On December 16, Israeli PM Netanyahu’s son Yair was quickly suspended for 24 hours for ranting about Palestinians.…
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December 11, 2018
Google’s CEO came to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec.11, but was unwilling to play 21 questions.
Five House representatives, from both political parties, asked CEO Sundar Pichai questions about Google’s involvement…
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December 11, 2018
Google had a loud defender in the House Judiciary Committee — interestingly the company is also is his top donor.
During the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai was testifying, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) opened fire…
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December 7, 2018
European officials are not happy with Facebook. The platform has run afoul of their regulations one too many times.
In an interview with BBC, former head of British intelligence agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan expressed his concerns about the social…
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November 27, 2018
Conservatives should just suck it up and accept their online punishments, according to Politico.
In an article criticizing the conservative backlash to Jesse Kelly’s ban on Twitter, Jack Shafer argued that there really wasn’t a reason…
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November 19, 2018
Conservatives are having a difficult time trusting that social media companies will protect the First Amendment.
In a new poll released by Axios, the general sentiment towards big tech companies such as Google and Facebook was negative. A majority…
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November 14, 2018
Censoring political opinions as “hate speech” has made its way to Instagram.
Mimi Hecht, a business owner on Instagram, posted several statements on her Instagram story after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania. She…
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November 5, 2018
Facebook wants to be militant about removing “hate speech.” However, it keeps deleting the wrong content.
The site removed a rabbi’s harrowing account of harassment by Rev. Louis Farrakhan supporters, only to say later that the…
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November 5, 2018
In the midterm cycle, Facebook is used as a platform for political ads paid for by different candidates. But while Democrats flourish on Facebook, Republican ads are blocked for “sensational content.”
On November 5, a day before the…