Companies are working slower to stop hate speech online. The EU Commission’s yearly evaluation of the code of conducts shows a decrease in companies’ notice-and-action results. The number of Read More
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A right-wing extremist suspected of hate speech and distributing online manuals for making 3D printed weapons has been arrested in Slovakia after a police and military intelligence action, Europol reports. Read More
Meta will make an exception from its rules about hate speech and allow users in some countries to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. After Reuters news Read More
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me” was never meant to dismiss the power of words. The focus of the proverb is not the Read More
The EU Commission will propose extending the list of ‘EU crimes’ to allow EU to criminalize gender-based hate speech and hate crime, the Commission’s vice president in charge of Read More
IT companies have become less efficient in removing illegal hate speech online, according to a survey by the European Commission evaluating the Code of Conduct on countering such speech. IT Read More
A third of people using video-sharing platforms (VSP) say they have witnessed or experienced hateful content; a quarter claim they’ve been exposed to violent or disturbing content, and one Read More
Social media giants have largely failed to tackle antisemitism and enforce their own community guidelines against hate speech, offering as a result a ‘safe space for racists,’ according to a Read More
A German federal court has ruled that Facebook acted illegally in taking down racist posts and blocking the account of their authors, arguing that the company failed to inform the Read More
Twitter has been instructed by a French court to provide clear details on what the company is doing to get to grips with hate speech, according to French Jewish student Read More