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  • BRAZIL - 2022/03/16: In this photo illustration, a woman holds a smartphone with the Facebook logo displayed on the screen with the Meta Platforms logo displayed in the background. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Facebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study says

    A study has revealed that Facebook has continued problems booting white supremacists off its platform.

    Jon Fingas
    08.10.2022
  • Protesters with the activist group, Change the Terms Reducing Hate Online, protest outside Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco, California on November 19, 2019. - The group of protesters represent a number of activist groups calling for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other executive to do more to end the spread of racism and white supremacy on the social media platform. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Twitter enforces its new hate policy by banning David Duke

    Twitter has banned notorious white supremacist David Duke, enforcing a new policy against hate speech links it introduced earlier this month. He was “permanently suspended" for Twitter Rules on hateful conduct.

    Steve Dent
    07.31.2020
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    Facebook bans two prominent white nationalist groups after Guardian report

    Facebook has banned Red Ice TV and Affirmative Right, two prominent white nationalist groups, from its social media platform. As reported by The Guardian, the bans come after the publication highlighted Facebook's resistance to take action against them, despite the fact that it said eight months ago it would no longer toleration white nationalist content.

    Igor Bonifacic
    11.27.2019
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    The internet is racing to cut ties with 8chan after another deadly shooting

    Less than an hour before this weekend's deadly mass-shooting in El Paso, Texas, the suspect appears to have posted a rambling post filled with white nationalist and racist statements on 8chan. After a day of waffling, Cloudflare announced it would cut the security services it had provided the far-right site. That exposed 8chan to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and for a time, the site was down. But 8chan soon found a way back online. Now, internet infrastructure companies are playing whack-a-mole, pulling the plug as other services step in to help 8chan get back online.

    Christine Fisher
    08.05.2019
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    Two-thirds of online gamers in the US experience 'severe' harassment

    It's no secret that online gaming can harbor toxic and abusive behavior. But a new survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says as many as many as two-thirds of US online gamers have experienced "severe" harassment. More than half of the respondents said they've been targeted based on their race, religion, ability, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity. Nearly 30 percent claim they've been doxxed in an online game, and nearly a quarter of respondents say they've been exposed to white supremacist ideology.

    Christine Fisher
    07.25.2019
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    Recommended Reading: Blame the apps for iPhone privacy woes

    iPhone privacy is broken... and apps are to blame Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal Thanks in part to Facebook's privacy blunders, concern over personal data security is growing. And we continue to find things gobbling up our info that we didn't know were doing so. The Wall Street Journal tested 80 iOS apps and discovered that a lot of them are tracking users in ways we aren't aware of. It's a topic that could be a focus during Monday's WWDC keynote.

    Billy Steele
    06.01.2019
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    Twitter is researching whether white supremacists should stay on its site

    Twitter has a longstanding problem with white supremacists on its platform, but is banning those racists the best option? Not necessarily, if you ask the social network. The company told Motherboard that it's researching how white supremacists use Twitter, and whether it would be better to ban them outright or keep them on to de-radicalize them through "counter-speech and conversation." The company can't say much about the study as it's working with academics bound by non-disclosure deals, but the aim was to see "what actually works," according to Twitter's Vijaya Gadde.

    Jon Fingas
    05.29.2019
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    Facebook and Instagram are banning white nationalism and separatism

    Facebook is banning white nationalism and separatism material from its platform and Instagram as of next week, following a prior ban on white supremacy. It will prohibit praise, support and representation of the ideologies, including specific phrases such as "I am a proud white nationalist" and "Immigration is tearing this country apart; white separatism is the only answer," as Motherboard first reported.

    Kris Holt
    03.27.2019
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    Twitter shuts down ISIS accounts but lets white nationalists stay

    Twitter's previous laissez-faire policy of letting free speech reign on the social network earned ire for their failure to curb hate speech and harassment. But letting terrorist groups freely use it to gather followers and spread their messages was too much. After vowing to ban accounts linked to extremism in mid-2015, they proceeded to shut down over 360,000 of them. But according to a report, Twitter is focusing on countering ISIS-promoting tweets while letting white nationalists run rampant on the service. Which is worrying, since Americans have committed 80 percent of terrorist attacks in the US since September 11th, 2001.

    David Lumb
    09.02.2016