Sentences with phrase «spreading hate speech»

In March, the UN blamed Facebook for playing a leading role in spreading hate speech against Rohingya in the Myanmar conflict.

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And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told a Brussels audience in January that the U.S. company promised «to do better» to boost privacy, stem the spread of hate speech and clamp down on the abuse of the social network to influence votes.

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

Instead of throwing these criminals in prison, they are allowed to claim freedom of speech and spread their message of hate.

In May, his team published two papers exploring how hate speech and fake news are spread around the Internet, focusing on the notorious but popular 4chan message boards.

We define online hate speech, or cyberhate, as the use of electronic communications technology to spread bigoted or hateful messages or information about people based on their actual (or perceived) race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other similar characteristic.

On the other hand, many wonder about the limits of free speech, whether it should apply universally or whether it is right to restrict speech when it is used to defame or spread hate.

The Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech is a series of commitments by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to combat the spread of hate content in Europe.

Each of the IT companies that signed this Code of Conduct is committed to countering the spread of illegal hate speech online, and to having rules that ban the promotion of violence and hatred.

Germany has also been pushing for a European Union wide response to tackling the spread of hate speech across online platforms.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

That means that if there's any hope for solving the massive spread of misinformation, hate speech, and violent content (to name just a few offenders) readily available on all of these popular platforms, it won't be throngs of poor souls struggling through hours of gratuitous posts.

The Sri Lankan government reportedly shut down Facebook's social media and messaging services in the country earlier this week, saying that it is being used to spread fake news and hate speech which promote deadly sectarian violence.

Alvin Tan, Facebook's head of public policy for Southeast Asia said that the city - state already had a variety of laws and regulations which address hate speech, defamation and the spreading of false news, and a new one will not be the best way to address the issue of misinformation.

UN's Fact - finding Mission chairman Marzuki Darusman said that hate speech on social media had compounded that spread of acrimony towards Rohingya Muslims amongst the wider public, and Facebook is considered to be the biggest social media network in Myanmar.