hate speech

The arrests of members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Pride march show a continuing problem with hate groups and hate speech in the U.S., says Sophie Bjork-James. The Vanderbilt University anthropology professor joined LX News to discuss how Congress and platforms can take action that could limit hate groups’ ability to spread hateful...

Deep River officials are investigating what’s being described as a “message of hate” that was written on the town message board. A resident alerted the town to the message and it was immediately removed. “Be assured that when the responsible person or persons are apprehended, they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” the town said...

A United Nations report released earlier this year that studied Finland confirmed what many of those women already suspected: Female politicians, regardless of political affiliation, are subjected to 10 times more abusive messages on Twitter.

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in India dithered in curbing hate speech and anti-Muslim content on its platform and lacked enough local language moderators to stop misinformation.

UConn police have arrested a student accused of spray-painting a swastika on a building on the Storrs campus. Investigators first learned of the anti-Semitic graffiti on the UConn Chemistry Building on March 27, the start of Passover. The building faces the Hillel House, a center for the Jewish community on campus. The suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Kristopher Pieper,…

The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.

After several anti-Semitic acts on campus, UConn students rallied together against hate.

Senior U.S. Navy commanders have met with sailors on ships on the West Coast after two recent racist incidents triggered one of the first military stand-downs to address extremism in the ranks

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

Facebook is slated to meet today with the organizers of an ad boycott group, which had caused hundreds of large businesses to pull ads from the social media giant’s platform over its lack of regulation on hate speech.

Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.