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Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebooks annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. The chairman of the U.K. Parliaments media committee says the government office that investigated the Cambridge Analytica scandal has fined Facebook 500,000 pounds ($663,000) for failing to safeguard users data. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Facebook has removed hundreds of posts under German hate-speech law

The social network received 1,704 complaints under the law, known in Germany as NetzDG.

1 Aug 2018 7:31 AM IST

While the platforms may not have anticipated the influx of hate speech and meddling from foreign powers like Russia, North Korea and China, Bajarin said, they should have acted more quickly once they found it. (Photo: AP)

Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they made

The dark side of untrammelled discourse, the thinking went, would sort itself out as online communities moderated...

11 Aug 2018 7:54 AM IST

The statement by Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is a Cabinet minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, is simply to garner some cheap publicity, state BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi said. (Photo: PTI)

Why can't Yogi Adityanath be prosecuted for 'hate speech', SC asks UP...

The SC issued notice returnable in 4 weeks on special leave petition against Allahabad HC order rejecting plea for...

20 Aug 2018 8:58 PM IST

Facebook banned several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.

Facebook claims it was 'too slow' to combat hate speech in Myanmar

Some 700,000 Rohingya fled their homes last year after an army crackdown that the United States denounced as ethnic...

17 Aug 2018 9:19 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting for Lok Sabha elections, in Banswara district, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (PTI Photo)

MCC Violation: EC Notices to Modi, Rahul

This is the first time that the EC has taken cognisance of a complaint against any Prime Minister

26 April 2024 1:42 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting for Lok Sabha elections, in Banswara district, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Lies, hate have no place in election campaign

As the heat of election season rises, a plea for respectful dialogue and integrity in political speech

23 April 2024 1:31 AM IST

BJP MLA Suresh Rana. (Photo: File)

UP polls: BJP's Suresh Rana booked for inciting hatred'

If I emerge as the winner (in UP polls), curfew will be imposed in Kairana, Deoband and Moradabad,' Rana had said.

30 Jan 2017 7:20 PM IST

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the social network affected the US presidential election. (Photo:AP)

Facebook fights US gag order that it says chills free speech

The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees certain rights including freedom of speech.

4 July 2017 7:49 AM IST

Facebook Live, the social media giants live video broadcasting platform, has been used to film grisly crimes that include suicides, murders, and rapes

Austrian court rules Facebook must delete 'hate postings'

Facebook's lawyers in Vienna declined to comment on the ruling

9 May 2017 9:02 PM IST

Facebook Live, the social media giants live video broadcasting platform, has been used to film grisly crimes that include suicides, murders, and rapes

Facebook leaked documents show types of content it allows: report

Many of the company's content moderators have concerns about the inconsistency and peculiar nature of some of the...

22 May 2017 12:08 PM IST

Hate speech threatens to impoverish the sensorium by ensuring food, dress are all policed. What they want is a suppression, humiliation or exclusion of their object of hate.

The Power of hate speech

Economic meltdown, refugee influx, terror attacks are leading to insecurities and distrust of communities and religions.

15 March 2017 3:47 AM IST

They raise the bogey of patriotism to make sure that any dissent is seen as sedition and therefore a threat to patriotism and security.

The Power of Hate Speech

Economic meltdown, refugee influx, terror attacks are leading to insecurities and distrust of communities and religions.

14 March 2017 1:03 AM IST