hate speech

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.

Facebook is slated to meet today with the organizers of an ad boycott group, which had caused hundreds of large businesses to pull ads from the social media giant’s platform over its lack of regulation on hate speech.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, says Facebook needs to do more to clamp down on hate speech on its platform, including de-amplifying some of the worst users, providing more support to users who are victimized and putting more civil rights leaders in positions of authority.

Facebook removed 88 ads Thursday posted by the accounts of President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign and Vice President Mike Pence that the social media giant said were “violating our policy against organized hate.”

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department announced Monday there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against a man who said he donned a Ku Klux Klan hood at a Santee supermarket out of “frustration” over having to wear a facial covering in public during the coronavirus pandemic.

UConn police have identified the two students who were arrested in connection to an incident involving racial slurs being shouted on campus earlier this month.

Hate speech scrawled on MBTA property has risen dramatically in 2017, according to the Boston Globe. With 35 instances of offensive writing found in 2016, there have already been 24 reports of this type of graffiti between January and April alone.

Police with the University of New Hampshire are offering a reward as they continue to investigate a series of racist messages found on campus over the weekend.

The “n-word” was found scrawled across a bulletin board on the University of New Hampshire campus Sunday.

For the second time this week, hateful graffiti has been found on the Durham campus of the University of New Hampshire.

The appearance of several swastikas drawn on the wall of a University of New Hampshire campus dorm stairwell has raised concerns among many students.

While the search continues for the suspect in a violent robbery in Quincy, Massachusetts, the couple’s son is speaking out about the ordeal.