Hate Speech

Maher said some users' concerns that the new rules meant the site was becoming more centralized were unfounded.

Wikipedia launches new global rules to combat site abuses

Feb 02, 2021

A representative for Discord said Wednesday that it had been monitoring the group for some time for violating its community guidelines.

Discord bans WallStreetBets for allowing hateful speech

Jan 28, 2021

Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity

Dec 03, 2020

France’s Constitutional Court censured a government-led bill this year arguing that its too-strict rules would have encouraged “overblocking” by platforms and Germany’s hate-speech law has been criticised for giving platforms too much unchecked leeway for deleting postings.

Facebook faces hate-speech rules as Austria targets social media

Sep 16, 2020

According to Reddit, 48% of all the hateful content on the site targeted users’ ethnicity or nationality, 16% attacked class or political affiliation, 12% targeted sexuality, 10% gender, 6% religion and 1% targeted ability.

Reddit reports 18% drop in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits

Aug 21, 2020
by HT Tech

The world's largest social network is battling a public-relations and political crisis in India after the Wall Street Journal reported that Das opposed applying the company's hate-speech rules to a politician from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party who had in posts called Muslims traitors.

Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy, say sources and memos

Aug 21, 2020

Facebook doesn’t fact-check ads from politicians or their campaigns, a point of contention for many lawmakers and advocates, who say the policy means ads on the platform could be used to spread lies and misinformation.

Facebook considers a political ad ban for US election, pleasing no one

Jul 12, 2020

A Facebook spokesperson said this decision to ban conversion therapy posts is an expansion of an earlier rule that specifically banned ads that promoted conversion therapy and was put in place earlier this year for the platforms.

Facebook, Instagram ban all posts promoting gay conversion therapy

Jul 11, 2020
by HT Tech

The company said the channels violated its policies by claiming members of protected groups were inferior. Duke is the former grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, while Molyneux and Spencer consider themselves philosophers.

YouTube bans more white supremacist channels for hate speech

Jun 30, 2020

End-to-end encryption on Facebook, Google etc will be threatened by this new bill

Feb 22, 2020
by Reuters