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Notwendiger Twitter-Protest oder Vandalismus?
(Necessary Twitter protest or vandalism?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 8.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | A German artist protested Twitter's lax action upon hate comments on their platform by spraypainting hate comments from Twitter on the German Twitter headquarter building. Twitter only deletes 1% of user-reported hate comments. The German justice minister has also gone after social media companies and is threatening with very high financial sanctions if they do not comply with local laws that prohibit hate language.
Image Description | Image and tweets of the protester and of the justice minister.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
What The Fuck
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 16.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, politics, social media, Twitter
Summary | The social media employee of the police department Mannheim tweeted out information about a seeming terror attack: a car had hit multiple people in a pedestrian only zone. She had tweeted that the suspect had been arrested. Other Twitter users however started aggressively demanding more information about the suspect, i.e. his race, heritage, religion, etc. The social media worker was shocked at how quickly people on Twitter made this a speculative far right-wing political issue and at somepoint even commented "WTF" in response to one of these tweets at her. Meanwhile people on Twitter were outraged that the police Twitter account would use such language.
Image Description | N/A
Twitter-Nutzer leiden mit diesem einsamen Opa
(Twitter user suffer with this lonely grandpa)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Twitter
Summary | A woman from Oklahoma tweeted a picture of her grandpa eating alone with the comment that he invited all six of his grandchildren and only she showed up. The tweet went viral with lots of people responding with sadness and others with anger at the grandchildren who did not show up. The attacks got so bad that the woman had to tweet out that her grandpa still loves all his gandchildren and that people should please stop threatening her cousins.
Image Description | Tweets.
Image Tags | Twitter
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