Talia Lavin went undercover to join white supremacy groups that were abusing her online. Her book, Culture Warlords, makes for difficult reading Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833080-500-culture-warlords-review-an-undercover-examination-of-white-supremacy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: WHITE SUPREMACY
Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards Banned, Removed From Database By Publisher
On Wednesday, Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast took unprecedented measures to remove racist cards from its game. Seven cards in all, dating back to 1994, are now banned from play. Their images will also being removed from the game’s official online database. Polygon reports: “The events of the past weeks and the ongoing conversation about how we can…
Reddit’s CEO Promises More Moderator Involvement in Shaping Corporate Policy
Reddit is vowing more changes after its co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned and requested they replace him with a black candidate. First Reddit’s other co-founder (and current CEO) Steve Huffman, calls it “a request that the board and I will honor.” But in a post on Reddit yesterday, CEO Huffman announced additional steps they’ll take, reports Mashable:
Huffman said the company will focus…
Stephen King, Elon Musk Criticize Social Media Policies
CaptainDork spotted CNN’s update about best-selling author Stephen King: “I’m quitting Facebook,” the author said on Twitter Friday. “Not comfortable with the flood of false information that’s allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users’ privacy….” His Facebook profile has since been deleted. King encouraged his fans to follow him on Twitter. But…
YouTube To Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
YouTube said on Wednesday that it plans to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies in an attempt to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service. From a report: The new policy will ban “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion,”…
Trump denounces anti-Semitism one day after defending Charlottesville marchers
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/27/18520810/trump-poway-synagogue-shooting-response-green-bay…
White identity politics is about more than racism
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18306125/white-identity-politics-trump-racism-ashley-jardina…
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
Joseph Cox, and Jason Koebler, reporting for Motherboard: At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content? An executive responded by explaining that Twitter follows the law, and a technical employee who works on machine learning…
Schools keep teaching slavery and civil rights history in ways that traumatize black students
Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/19/18507873/arizona-school-segregation-lesson-slavery-civil-rights-history…
36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook
The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43jdbj/christchurch-attack-videos-still-on-facebook-instagram…