US lawmakers press top game companies about how they assess and mitigate risks of extremist behavior, citing an ADL study on rising extremism in online gaming
- “We are writing to better understand the processes you have in place to handle player reports of harassment and extremism encounters …
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speech and disinformation...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
to the point where it has de-indexed entire countries rather than do so — but that dam broke this week. Why? https://www.cjr.org/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : Facebook on the other side of “platform...