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There has been a surge of antisemitic activity since the October 7 attacks on Israel
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has urged the US to pass anti-Semitism awareness legislation. “No place on any campus…is for threats or hate speech, or antisemitism of any kind,” he added. “Hate never goes away. We’re aware that hate never goes away,” Biden further said. The bill was introduced in 2016 and passed the US…
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Anti- Hate organization threatened with lawsuit for reporting on hate speech on social media
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, a group that publishes research about hate speech on social media, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that it scraped data from the platform to look like it is flooded with hate speech and other harmful content. It claims the group cherry picks posts from the site to…
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Apple’s voices were used to train artificial intelligence
A US-based audiobook rights holder has accused Spotify of violating the rights of the book’s author when it stopped selling his voice over its platform. She said Spotify failed to notify her aboutFindaway’s machine learning clause, which prohibits hate speech and sexually explicit material. Spotify said it sent her an opt-out request, but she hasn’t…
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The TikTok has been banned by the US House of Representatives.
TikTok said it has banned the House of Representatives from using its app on its devices after a lawmaker said she would ban it, The New York Times reported. US Representative Catherine Szpindor said she would restrict the use of the app on House-issued devices. Democrats have said that Section 230 should be changed because…
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There are accusations of inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia.
A researcher in Ethiopia, Fisseha Tekle, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in Kenya, alleging that the company has allowed hate speech to run rampant on its platform, causing widespread violence. Tekle said that of 85 languages spoken in Ethiopia, only three were covered byFacebook’s moderation practices. He also claimed that posts falsely accusing him…
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Liz Cheney is hitting the trail for Democrats.
US Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney said, “People coming together to say we think in democracy. And a real rejection of the toxicity, and hate, and vitriol, and of Donald Trump.” Cheney, who lost to Democratic candidate Adam Kinzinger in August, added, “We know from history that it’s impossible to tolerate hate speech or antisemitism. There…
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Nike has suspended its relationship with Irving.
Adidas has terminated its partnership with rapper Kanye West after he made anti-Semitic remarks on a documentary. In a statement, Adidas said it “does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech” and said his recent comments were “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous”. It added that they violated its “values of diversity and inclusion,…