hate speech
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‘We Want YouTube To Remove Crowder’: Googlers Gear Up To Protest At Pride Events
YouTube dug a great big hole for itself earlier this week when its PR bungled its response to the ongoing harassment of a journalist by a far-right pundit. Internally, the backlash from employees at its parent company is growing as LGBTQ and allied workers mobilise to demand a satisfactory response.
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YouTube Shuts Down Chats After Streams Of House Hearing On White Nationalism Are Flooded By White Nationalists
YouTube shut down numerous chat rooms being flooded for over an hour by racist comments when thousands of people tuned into YouTube on Tuesday to watch a House Judiciary Committee congressional hearing on the rise of white nationalism.
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Leaked Facebook Emails Detail Discussions Over Instagram Labelling Alex Jones As A ‘Hate Figure’
An email chain between Facebook and Instagram executives discussing an anti-Semitic post on Alex Jones’ Instagram account and obtained by Business Insider and Britain’s Channel 4 News illustrates the kind of extreme lengths that the company goes to in order to avoid passing judgement on what’s right in front of their faces. They also show…
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Apple Bans Most InfoWars Podcasts Over Hate Speech
Alex Jones is no longer welcome at Apple. The trillion dollar company has removed five of the six podcasts produced by InfoWars, the conspiracy theory empire that Jones founded to spread misinformation. Podcasts such as “The Alex Jones Show” and “War Room” have been pulled from all of Apple’s directories, but the company has left…