Sentences with phrase «racist tweets»

The researchers didn't distinguish between racist tweets and general abuse, partly because it's difficult for a computer to decide what is racist and what isn't.

His party colleague, who represents the Forth and Endrick ward, posted a series of racists tweets appearing to compare black people to cannibals.

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During the SXSW tech conference in March, Khan read out racist tweets about himself in a plea for social media firms to crack down on hate speech.

Andrew Barovick has finally departed the city's prestigious bar association after making racist tweets against Chris Moss, the GOP's black candidate for lieutenant governor.

It also includes attacking individuals based on their appearance, racist tweets ranging from sports to the Miss America Pageant, anti-Semitism expressed on Facebook, and hateful comments written in response to news articles.

When Nina Davuluri was crowned 2014 Miss America, a few hundred racist Tweets popped up on Twitter.

Two athletes so far have been expelled from the Olympics for racist tweets.

The Instagram stars» morning show was dropped soon after racist tweets surfaced and a family connection to an anti-Muslim activist was made public.

Addressing Twitter, Home Affairs Committee chair Yvette Cooper said her staff had reported a series of violent, threatening and racist tweets via the platform's standard reporting systems in August — many of which still had not been removed, months on.

These objectionable users are a result of Twitter's well - intentioned desire to allow total free speech and anonymity on the service, but they consistently drive out others, including influential users like actress Leslie Jones, who temporarily quit the service after a bombardment of racist tweets.

«When our city government hires a person who has a known history of racist tweeting, our own government is, therefore, tolerating it and validating it,» Stringer said.

She also referred to a Conservative politician who was recently suspended over a racist tweet.

@AndyBarovick I'll give you'til noon to retract this racist tweet, Mr. Barovick.

Shameful how so many ppl can't perceive impact, reach, permanence of their racist tweets.

«For example, consider the message sent to the public if a police chief were to march in a Klan parade while off duty — or sends a series of racist tweets.»

And in December a Twitter policy staffer was roasted by UK MPs during a select committee session after the company was again shown failing to remove violent, threatening and racist tweets — which committee staffers had reported months earlier in that case.

Earlier this week Arizona intern Erika Escalante was fired after publishing a racist tweet.