THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has sentenced a 47-year-old woman to 40 hours of community service for threatening the country’s prime minister in a Facebook post. The Hague District Court said Wednesday that the woman from Leiden
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared last week that the social media site was dedicated to removing any content “that promotes or celebrates hate crimes.”
Bedfordshire Constable Jamal Hassan has been jailed for making “indecent photographs” of children, following complaints that the department focused more on fighting Islamophobia and “right-wing extremism” than real crimes.
Bedfordshire Police have been slammed online after creating a “right-wing extremism simulator” that links meeting people at the gym with far-right extremism and has the player murder a Muslim at the end.
Right wing, male MPs are far more likely to receive abuse online than left wing females, despite claims of feminist activists that women are most vulnerable.
(Reuters) — The German parliament approved a plan on Friday to fine social media networks up to 50 million euros ($57 million) if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, despite concerns the law could limit free expression.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are taking action against 36 people suspected of posting hate speech online, most of them accused of far-right incitement.
Dutch prosecutors have announced they will not be pursuing charges against firebrand Dutch politician Geert Wilders for a speech he made in Austria in 2015.
Cheshire Police are under fire for issuing a warning to Facebook users to “think carefully about what they are saying” online in the wake of the London Bridge terror attacks, or they might end up in prison.
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top European Union official said Thursday.
Facebook has criticized new German hate speech law that would see social media companies pay up to €50 million in fines if they fail to remove “hate speech” on their platform.
The European Union (EU) has signed off on proposals to make companies such as Facebook and Twitter remove videos containing ‘hate speech’.
Conservative Party plans to crack down on “extremism” could lead to the dangerous censorship of public debate, the Christian Institute has warned. The Party’s manifesto pledges that a Conservative government will “establish a Commission for Countering Extremism to identify examples
Facebook is appealing an order to impose Austria’s social media laws against hate speech on the platform worldwide.
A 70-year-old Swedish woman in Dalarna is being prosecuted for hate speech after claiming on Facebook she saw migrants defecating in the streets and setting fire to cars.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized to major advertisers last Thursday for not dealing with “offensive” content on the platform.
Facebook is hiring 3,000 new employees for its “community operations team” whose job will be to remove posts that are flagged as inappropriate by users.
Google has tweaked their search engine in a new effort to combat “fake news” and “hate speech.”
(Reuters) — Video-sharing platforms such as Google’s YouTube and Vimeo will have to take measures to protect citizens from content containing hate speech and incitement to violence under measures voted by EU lawmakers on Tuesday.
Google has launched a new series of workshops which aim to teach teenagers how to tackle “fake news” and “hate speech.”
BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces criticism from some of the web’s biggest names over plans to weaken encrypted communication and fine social media sites for hate speech.
Social media platforms spewed more than 382,000 anti-Semitic posts over the course of 2016 – an average of more than 43.6 posts per hour, or one post every 83 seconds, according to research by the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Sixty-three percent of all the anti-Semitic content found a megaphone on Twitter.
The United Nations marked International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Tuesday by telling governments around the world that regulating “hate speech” is part of the strategy needed to “stand up for someone’s rights.”
Top executives from the UK arms of Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday and were grilled about an apparent failure to tackle ‘hate speech’ on their platforms. The committee directed most
The Council of Europe has claimed the UK media, “online sources”, and “certain politicians” are inciting “hate speech” and “hate crimes”, and demands the state strengthens “mechanisms” to “tone down” and silence such voices.
As debate rages at the national level over a proposed anti-Islamophobia motion, the Ontario legislature has passed its own motion condemning “all forms of Islamophobia” and rebuking “the notable growing tide of anti-Muslim rhetoric and sentiments” in the Canadian province.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has called on Amazon to stop selling Holocaust denial books, charging the retail giant of promoting anti-Semitism and hate speech.
The Canadian Parliament is debating a motion urging the government to “condemn Islamophobia” and “quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear.”
Google has launched a new AI program called Perspective to detect “abusive” comments online in an effort to crack down on hate speech.
An influential French blogger has come in for heavy criticism after thousands of antisemitic, threatening and homophobic tweets he published under a pseudonym resurfaced over the weekend, sparking fierce debate. The tweets included threats against Front National leader Marine Le
TEL AVIV – The student council at the University of Western Ontario in Canada came out last week in condemnation of a “hate speech”-filled flier circulating the campus that blamed last month’s Quebec mosque shooting on “Jewish terrorists.”
The Huffington Post, self-anointed grand inquisitor of hate speech infractions, has now fully embraced odium with a new article titled “Why I Hate President Trump.”
ROME, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Facebook must do much more to stamp out hate speech on its site, the president of Italy’s lower house of parliament said, warning that rising abuse on various social media was being fuelled by fake
The Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley, has published a series of op-eds defending the use of violence to shut down a lecture on campus by Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos last week.
The UK government is to pay an advertising giant, which campaigned against Brexit, £60 million to fight so-called “far right” extremism online including “going against people who read Breitbart…”
Dr. Georg Zakrajsek, a firearms enthusiast and supporter of the liberalisation of firearms laws in Austria, has been sentenced to five months in prison for claiming that Islam had declared war on the Western world.
A 66-year-old German man has been given a suspended three-month prison sentence for hate speech after he distributed leaflets in his town calling migrants “parasites”.
A speech about foreign workers made by the Home Secretary – an enthusiastic supporter of harsher “hate speech” laws – has been investigated and recorded as a “hate incident” by police.
Prosecutors in Tyrol are seeking to strip parliamentary immunity from a politician of the anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) over “hate posts” made to his Facebook page by other users.
Adam Morgan, Editor in Chief of the Chicago Review of Books, published an article in The Guardian today where he called MILO’s new book “hate speech” and claimed that it would inspire the likes of Omar Mateen and Dylann Roof.
