Facebook took down a video posted to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s account that compared Jews to termites, calling it “Tier 1 hate speech,” The Wrap reported. “The video was taken down because it violates our hate speech policies,” a Facebook representative told The Wrap. In response to critics calling him an anti-Semite, Farrakhan,…
Facebook has become a means for ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, The New York Times reported. Myanmar military personnel has been using the social network over the past five years to prey on the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority group, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in Myanmar. Facebook took down the official accounts…
The Facebook executive who spurred internal outrage among the social media giant’s workforce for attending Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing in support of the embattled judge threw him a party in honor of his confirmation onto the Supreme Court, Politico reported. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s head of global policy, and his wife Laura hosted an intimate gathering…
Facebook’s headquarters have been rife with internal debate as hundreds of employees shared their disdain over a top executive’s presence at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing last week, The Wall Street Journal reported. The social media giant has since admitted it “made mistakes” in how it handled the situation, CNBC reported. Employees brought their…
Fifty million Facebook users were affected by the social media giant’s latest security breach — including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Facebook announced Friday that an attack on its computer network exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million accounts, the New York Times reported. It was the largest breach in the company’s…
This story was co-published with ProPublica, the investigative journalism organization. In 2016, as Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi performed at college campuses around the United States, his appearances seemed to spark student protests. Before his visit to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a page called “John Jay Students Against Hate” appeared…
After a brief suspension from Twitter, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been permanently banned from the social media platform, Gizmodo reported. Twitter banned both Jones’ account and that of his website Infowars, citing abusive behavior. His Twitter page had nearly 900,000 followers, and Infowars had 430,000. Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from…
When Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg testified to Congress Wednesday about online propaganda and voter manipulation, she didn’t fully answer a question about whether the social media giant was profiting off hate, Slate reported. California Sen. Kamala Harris pointed out that the more users engage, the more revenue Facebook takes in. Hateful and conspiratorial…
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