Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to a question from Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD) on “hate speech” on his social network Tuesday with optimism that an artificial intelligence (A.I.) system will be able to recognize and eliminate the category he refused to define.
While testifying before the Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged providing a definition of what constituted “hate speech” on the Facebook platform.
A mother of four who campaigns against “gender identity” ideology claims she was threatened with arrest and banned from leaving the UK after saying transgender women are “castrated” men.
Labour’s David Lammy MP is demanding the police investigate Leave.EU for ‘hate speech’ after it posted a tweet suggesting Jeremy Corbyn is turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism in order to appease Muslim voters.
UK Independence Party peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch has invited Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative) to debate with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson following his appearance in the Houses of Parliament last week.
The French government is considering allowing convicted criminals to monitor social media for hate speech and cyberbullying as part of their community service.
Scottish comedian Mark Meechan — better known as ‘Count Dankula’ — has spoken out after his conviction for causing “gross offence” by posting a video of his girlfriend’s pug performing tricks.
A 65-year-old woman in Sweden, who is facing either a fine or prison sentence if found guilty of hate crimes, released her side of the story in a YouTube video describing a large-scale investigation and harassment from police.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for flying to a liberal arts festival in Texas in the midst of a violent crime wave in his city, to argue that national government should focus on pressuring social media firms to increase censorship.
A 65-year-old woman in the city of Jönköping is set to be prosecuted on hate crime charges for claiming that mass Muslim immigration will lower the general IQ of the Swedish population.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned major technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter to do more on the issue of “hate speech,” or face fines and greater regulation.
Sri Lanka has reportedly blocked access to social media and messaging sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in an attempt to prevent “hate speech.”
South Africa’s leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), announced that it was be taking legal action against radical politician Julius Malema, who told supporters last week to “cut the throat” of the “white man.”
The Anti-Defamation League has stated that social media companies YouTube, Twitter and Facebook may use the group’s “Online Hate Index” to detect hate speech on their platforms.
Tomas Åberg, project manager for Näthatsgranskaren, or “Network Examiner” an internet-based group who report Swedes to authorities if they see them post “hate speech” online, has been nominated for the “Swedish Hero” award by one of the country’s major newspapers.
The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms to delete content they consider “illegal” with one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the internet.
A Muslim radio station that broadcast a chant glorifying their “warlike” prophet Muhammad, and encouraged the beheading of “lowlifes” and murder of “filthy” non-Muslims, has been fined £2,000 by the regulator for “hate speech”.
A Swedish online “social justice” group comprised of lawyers, former police officers, and other professionals are said to be behind the rise of prosecutions against Swedes for “hate speech” on social media platforms.
Left-wing employees within Google conspired to undermine Breitbart’s ad revenue, according to sources within the company.
Princeton professor Lawrence Rosen announced on Monday that he’d be shutting down his course on cultural freedoms for the rest of the semester after he faced a media backlash for using the n-word during a classroom lecture on hate speech.
CNN’s climate of hate came home to roost when a man, provoked by CNN’s fake news, allegedly made death threats against the far-left network.
A recently published survey conducted by FIRE suggests that a majority of Democratic college students believe that hate speech should be illegal.
Northumbria Police have warned that “offensive” comments on the Internet will not be tolerated, tracking down users who made ‘potentially criminal’ posts on social media about South Asian grooming gangs.
The president of a public community college in San Antonio, Texas, argues that “hate speech” is not “free speech.”
An Islamist activist who claimed the 71 victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster “were murdered” by Zionists who fund the Conservative party will not face prosecution for hate speech.
A small group of left-wing campaigners are attempting to limit what newspapers report about immigration, Islam, and transgenderism, successfully “bullying” business into withdrawing ads from publications they don’t agree with.
Police are “letting [suspects] off with a warning and hoping for the best” because they can’t cope with the scale of the crime problem, a senior officer has warned. Since 2010, the number of custody cells has dropped by as
Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship has passed a law “against hatred and fascism” as the regime seeks to further silence its political opponents.
(Reuters) BRUSSELS — Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe.
Vassar College students “were whipped into a frenzy” ahead of a speech given on campus this week by Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson on the topic of hate speech on college campuses.
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky affirmed that “hate speech” is protected speech on public college campuses, in a column for Vox on Wednesday.
Police recorded crimes for England and Wales surged to over five million over the last year, according to a new Office for National Statistics (ONS) bulletin. Britain’s official statistical institute reports a 13 per cent increase in crime in the
London’s Metropolitan Police Force has said it will give up on investigating many instances of “low-level” crime such as shoplifting and vandalism, saying it is “not practical” to fight them in a time of cutbacks.
The European Union funded project “Respect Words” has released guidelines for journalists telling them not to talk to “extremists” about illegal mass migration, not to mention the ethnicity of migrant criminals if possible, and to actively counter “hate propaganda”. The
Transport for London (TfL) and London’s police are teaming up to encourage people to report “perceived” so-called “hate crimes”, specifically targeting Muslims by going into mosques.
British police forces arrested at least nine people a day for “offensive” comments on social media in 2016.
A policeman has been fired from the Cumbria force for gross misconduct after making a Facebook comment that was judged as likely to cause offence to Muslims.
The government is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer’s cash on the first-ever national police unit dedicated to tackling Internet ‘trolls’.
Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch director, joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the congressional resolution calling upon President Trump to condemn hate groups.
Many Americans don’t seem to appreciate as much as outside admirers do, that the United States is the only country in the world with a commitment to free speech enshrined in the nation’s Constitution. Many nations do not even have