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• Twitter made further staff cuts in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harassment, according to Bloomberg, with at least a dozen more cuts on Friday night affecting workers in the company’s Dublin and Singapore offices. Workers on teams handling the social network’s misinformation policy, global appeals, and state media on the platform were also laid off. via Bloomberg

09 Oca 2023

• Twitter dissolved its Trust and Safety Council , the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights, and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm, and other problems on the platform. Former Twitter employee Patricia Cartes, who formed the council in 2016, said the dissolution "means there are no more checks and balances." Tax break: The $5.7 billion of Tesla shares that Elon Musk...Devamını Oku

14 Ara 2022

• The European Commission warned Elon Musk that if Twitter fails to remove Russian war propaganda, it means the platform would be "actively supporting the war." The Commission also told Musk that Twitter must try harder to comply with the Digital Services Act, the EU’s new content moderation rules. The law requires tech companies to control their platforms for content including terrorism propaganda, child abuse, hate speech, and commercial scams. via Euronews ...Devamını Oku

02 Ara 2022

• Twitter removed 1,500 accounts involved in a coordinated trolling campaign that led to a surge in hate speech and hateful conduct on the website, in an effort to make people think that Twitter has weakened its policies after Elon Musk took over, the company's head of safety and security Yoel Roth said. In other news: Most of Twitter's Trust and Safety division employees have been locked out of its moderation tools, meaning they lost their ability to penalize acco...Devamını Oku

02 Kas 2022

• Adidas cut ties with rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, due to his offensive remarks. The German company said it did not “tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech.” Ye wore a shirt that said “White Lives Matter” during Paris Fashion Week earlier this month and said that Jewish people “own the Black voice” at his podcast interview with Drink Champs, which has later been removed. via Reuters

26 Eki 2022

• A 21-year-old man was jailed in France for posting online hate speech messages targeting victims of the 2016 terror attack in Nice, posting that "80 fascists had disappeared" about those who were killed in the attack.

26 Eki 2022

• TikTok is updating its safety policies with a target demographic of younger users, teens, and LGBT+ — addressing concerns raised over hate speech, hoaxes, and content about eating disorders. Zoom in: The platform will mandate content creators to designate appropriate age groups for their audiences in an attempt to shield teens from harmful content on the video app.

09 Şub 2022

• A French court mandated Twitter to disclose detailed efforts the company carries out to combat hate speech on their platform, ruling in favor of advocacy groups across Europe that say racist and discriminatory content is widespread on the social media app.

21 Oca 2022

• Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki criticized Facebook’s ban on Poland’s far-right Confederation Freedom and Independence party for violating platform’s Covid-19 and hate speech rules. Morawiecki referred to the ban as “a hit at the basic democratic values of freedom of speech and opinion,” also calling it “cyber censorship.” What happened? Facebook's Meta removed Poland’s Confederation Freedom and Independence party's profile over its posts that criticized vaccination...Devamını Oku

07 Oca 2022

• A UK parliamentary committee recommended that the country should force social media companies to assess and report the harm caused by their algorithms, ahead of the new Online Safety Bill set to pass in Spring 2022 aimed at protecting children and adults from harmful online content, including hate speech and content that promotes child sexual abuse, violence or terrorism. Background: Recommendations came followed Instagram’s announcement on allowing its users to sw...Devamını Oku

15 Ara 2021