Sentences with phrase «to hate speech»

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.
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.
A group of web companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter signed an EU hate speech accord earlier this year that requires them to respond within 24 hours to notifications about hate speech on their services.
A German law requiring social media companies to quickly remove hate speech from their sites is set to be revised following criticism.
Some employees allegedly said that a post on Trump's Facebook page from December about the presidential candidate's call to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. should be taken down as hate speech.
Facebook also said on Wednesday it would step up its monitoring of hate speech, adding 3,000 content reviewers to nearly double the size of its existing team.
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.
It's a steep challenge for Reddit to kick the association with hate speech, though.
It's also a place that's gotten criticized for ties to the alt - right communities on Reddit, which have become known for fostering hate speech and anti-Semitism.
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 - Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.
A key one is for officials or their allies to complain that a threat, hate speech or celebration of violence violates the company's terms of service, rather than any law.
We don't let hate speech become normalised.
Just a day earlier, the French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google, Twitter Inc and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called «online terrorism incitement and hate speech
The Commission's mid-term review also looked at the issue of hate speech on social media.
The government says hate speech and fake news on the company's services has spurred deadly sectarian violence.
The German parliament is discussing a law to fine social media networks up to 50 million euros ($ 54.4 million) if they fail to remove hate speech postings quickly.
Every post on Facebook asks «Does this post contain hate speech?
An earlier draft of the Commission's mid-term review of its digital single market strategy showed it was considering legislation on how companies should take down hate speech and incitement to violence, but that idea has been scrapped.
Facebook users got a new addition to their News Feed on Tuesday: A yellow - orange icon with the question «Does this post contain hate speech
Meanwhile Germany's new government says it may revise a law meant to punish internet companies that don't promptly remove hate speech.
Facebook suspended or restricted the accounts of many pro-Western Ukrainians after they were accused of hate speech by multiple Russian - speaking users in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign, said former Facebook security staffer Nick Bilogorskiy, a Ukrainian immigrant who helped some of those accounts win appeals.
The ban in Sri Lanka came the same week that Germany's new coalition government says it may revise a recently - enacted law to punish internet firms that don't remove hate speech quickly enough.
Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.
Facebook has faced fierce criticism from governments and rights groups in many countries for failing to do enough to stem hate speech and prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism, stir sectarian violence and broadcast acts including murder and suicide.
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.
It's great that media companies like Buzzfeed & Vox are taking a stand but SXSW should not give a platform to proponents of hate speech.
And, the hate speech is so rampant, the impact so profound, it is now impossible to ignore.
«Hate speech is reprehensible, and has no place in NYC.
And yet, hate speech and harassment seem to find a home more easily on Twitter than on other platforms.
As many users have pointed out, Twitter doubled the character (from 140 to 280) count at a time when there is rampant hate speech and a general tone of confrontation and dissonance on what is a relatively small social media platform.
To block very hurtful comments that do not use hate speech (something like «why don't you step in front of a truck») could be perceived as limiting free speech.
If someone keeps sending death threats, or I report that person, or they use abusive words or hate speech, then Twitter's machine learning might kick in — or it might not.
During the course of Trump's campaign, Facebook employees reportedly asked Zuckerberg whether they should block the now - president - elect's Facebook page for hate speech — a request Zuckerberg ultimately denied.
Hate speech is running rampant, people are going for the jugular online — it's not pretty.
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 26: A Muslim woman, Sarah A. Aly, Mentorship Coordinator at Network for Arab American Professionals, poses for a photo during an exclusive interview for «Anadolu Agency (AA)» on raising hate speech and islamophobia ahead of the US presidential elections in New York City, NY, USA on October 26, 2016.
Indeed, it will take another five to 10 years for AI to be ready to police hate speech and be able to reliably distinguish it from legitimate political expression, Zuckerberg told senators during his testimony at a congressional hearing Tuesday.
Although Facebook has worked on AI that could identify hate speech, the error rates are just too high, he said.
Ten minutes later another extremely abusive hate speech tweet spewed forth: «We are now in full support of the Nazi Party.
Hate speech is a problem for AI, because it's subject to lots of nuance, he said.
It's worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text, photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech, graphic violence, sexually explicit content, and more.
Janine Sikes, a university spokeswoman, said it was the first time that she could recall the university denying someone to speak due to fears of violence or hate speech.
While these skills initiatives and research investments can probably be largely taken at face value, they also provide Facebook with useful lobbying points at a time when regulators and lawmakers across Europe are taking on the company over issues such as hate speech, privacy and tax.
However, Zuckerberg also said Facebook hasn't done enough to prevent harmful use of its own tools in regards to issues including fake news, election interference, hate speech and privacy concerns.
In a modest way, the slogan captured the libertarian idea that a powerful company, like a nation - state, is most virtuous when it governs least — even if that means tolerating hate speech.
Where to set the boundaries between hate speech and legitimate advocacy for perspectives on the edge of the political spectrum, and who should set them, are complex and difficult questions.
Taboola's policy prohibits working with sites that have «politically religious agendas» or use hate speech.
But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that the company is investing «heavily» on safety and security, including workers with language skills for detecting hate speech, and tools for verifying government IDs ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad by the end of the year.
Twitter appears to have blocked the accounts of several right - wing users, including some associated with white - power groups, as part of a move to respond to user frustration with hate speech and harassment.
According to Quartz, this includes hate speech, meaning that UF had no choice but to allow Spencer to rent out space.
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.
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