hate speech

Some prominent media publishers are dropping the comic strip Dilbert after its creator referred to people who are Black as members of “a hate group” and urged white people to “get away” from them. The backlash against Dilbert began after a YouTube video released this past week by comic strip creator Scott Adams. Among those dropping Dilbert are the USA...

A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol spread by celebrities is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence. Former President Donald Trump hosted a Holocaust-denying white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago. The rapper Ye expressed love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Basketball star Kyrie Irving appeared to promote an antisemitic film on social media. Those...

An antisemitic message was carved into the side of a car at a home in Stow, Massachusetts, over the weekend, according to Stow police, and it seems the vandal may have also tried to set the house on fire. Police said officers were called to a home on North Shore Drive for the report around 9:45 a.m. Saturday. There they…

The community is spreading love after signs at an LGBTQ-friendly Boston housing project for seniors were vandalized with violent and threatening hate messages. People stood together in solidarity Sunday night after developers said “virtually every sign” for the Pryde, which broke ground less than a month ago, was covered in spray-paint. The building project will turn an old middle school…

Signs at the Pryde, an unfinished LGBTQ-friendly housing project for seniors in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, were targeted with violent and threatening hate speech

The arrests of members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Pride march show a continuing problem with hate groups and hate speech in the U.S., says Sophie Bjork-James. The Vanderbilt University anthropology professor joined LX News to discuss how Congress and platforms can take action that could limit hate groups’ ability to spread hateful...

A United Nations report released earlier this year that studied Finland confirmed what many of those women already suspected: Female politicians, regardless of political affiliation, are subjected to 10 times more abusive messages on Twitter.

Police are investigating hateful vandalism and graffiti including antisemitic language and symbols found on the campus of Curry College starting late last week. Milton police Deputy Chief James O’Neil said there were five cases of vandalism reported, the first of which was of a swastika drawn in a laundry room along with other graffiti on Thursday, the Boston Globe reported....

A charter school in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is investigating after hateful messages were discovered, the latest in a series of racist incidents that have been reported. Officials at the Rising Tide Charter Public School confirm a white supremacist slogan and homophobic slurs were found written on the walls of a boys’ bathroom. The school also says there have been other times…

Quincy High School and middle school students planned to stage a walk out again Monday after a new racist video circulated through the community. Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School last week after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” resurfaced and led to a fight between two students. A new video emerged Friday of three Point…

Danvers school officials are expected to discuss Monday whether to remove the district’s superintendent over an alleged attempt to cover up bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team. Danvers High School has been roiled by the description of rituals where players disrobed and were fondled, something dubbed “Gay Tuesday,” and where players were...

Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School on Friday morning after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” led to a fight between two students earlier this week.

Parents will voice their concerns Friday after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” lead to a fight between two Quincy High School students earlier this week.

Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School on Friday morning after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” led to a fight between two students earlier this week. The fight broke out after dismissal over a video that was created outside of school over a year ago but recently shared between students on social media. Freshman Jayden Harris…

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in India dithered in curbing hate speech and anti-Muslim content on its platform and lacked enough local language moderators to stop misinformation.