Following Public Outrage and Criticism from U.S. Lawmakers, Twitter Reverses Policy Twitter has suspended internationally designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah from its platform. The decision came in response to criticism and pressure from...
Violent Propaganda’s Reappearance Calls Into Question Platform’s Content Moderation Efforts YouTube is unable or unwilling to keep known extreme neo-Nazi propaganda off their website. An Atomwaffen Division (AWD) propaganda video clip has been...
On October 9, 2019, a gunman tried to storm a synagogue in Halle, Germany, where dozens were observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The attack—which was livestreamed on the Amazon-owned Twitch platform from a camera attached to...
Facebook’s Latest Reactive Policy Change Meaningless Without Proper Enforcement Facebook recently made modifications to its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, in an attempt to limit extremism on its platform. Amongst other changes, the...
Dr. Hany Farid: More Must Be Done to Stop Child Exploitation, Deepfakes Child exploitation content on the Internet has dramatically increased, and current efforts to prevent and remove it by tech companies and law enforcement are not enough. In a...
Company Acknowledges it has Provided Services to Individuals, Entities Blacklisted by U.S. Government Cloudflare Inc., a website security company, recently admitted to federal regulators that it had potentially violated economic and trade laws by...