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How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 21.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Ever since the fatal Unite the Right protest in Charlotteville, social media and other internet companies seem to be washing their hands from any connection with far-right groups. Facebook has deleted such groups off of their platform, Reddit has done the same, Spotify is deleting white supremacist music from their libraries, and so on. Now far-right groups are building online alternatives for themselves and lamenting the censorship they have been victimized by.
Image Description | Illustration of hands around some crumpled-up paper.
Image Tags | hand(s)
I'm O.K. - You're Pure Evil
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 17.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics, threat, Twitter
Summary | Social media has made the political discourse cruder. In order to be heard in the millions of users one needs to provoke in just 140 characters. This is a threat to democracy because violent statements about people in office have become the norm because it is appropriate on social media. But now even serious news outlets begin using similar language that does not help a healthy political discussion.
Image Description | Illustration of facial features with mouse cursor arrows.
Facebook Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Uncover Extremist Posts
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 15.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, politics, threat
Summary | Facebook has been urged by both users and politicians to do more to combat extremist content on their platform. It is Facebook's responsibility to monitor the content they allow so as not to provide a safe space for extremists. Facebook has announced that they plan to employ artificial intelligence to help them flag extremist content.
Image Description | An image of a man and blurry silhouettes standing under a Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, male(s)
Naked Lady Politics
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | gender, politics, pornography, sexting, threat, Twitter
Summary | The author says that she teaches her daughter that the internet does not forget and that female nudity rarely benefits the nude woman in the long run. However, there seem to be contradicting cases. Women's and men's careers have been both destroyed and boosted by the leaking of nude images, sexting selfies, or revenge porn. Most recently, Donald Trump has been caught first defending his wife's honor and accusing Ted Cruz of posting nude footage of her modeling days to then later post images of his wife and Cruz's wife to make the point that his wife is hotter.
Image Description | Illustration with pin-up girl silhouettes.
Image Tags | female(s)
Review: When the Digital World Is Judging Your Every Thought
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 17.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, politics, social media, threat
Summary | The new novel "I Hate The Internet" by Jarett Kobek poses a lot of interesting questions about how social media is affecting our society. The main question is: why is everyone willingly giving away their intellectual property on platforms owned by for-profit corporations? How did these capitalist platforms become to be perceived as the most appropriate space to exercise one's freedom of speech? Wannabe social activists think they are helping a cause by posting provocative comments on social media but few people are getting active for real social change.
Image Description | Image of the book and a portrait of the author holding a giant plush emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s)
Obama Shifts Online Strategy on ISIS
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, politics, social media, threat
Summary | President Obama is sending his representatives to California to speak to the major social media platforms in order to find ways to stop ISIS from recruiting new members on social media. The terrorist organization has proven to be very successful on social media and stopping their success on social media is a good proactive measure in defeating ISIS. Removing threatening content from social media however always risks being likened to censorship.
Image Description | Portrait of an Apple representative.
Image Tags | male(s)
San Francisco Police Chief Releases Officers' Racist Texts
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, law, politics, texting, threat
Summary | The San francisco police officer's racist text messaged were released. He now has to take racial bias training and all criminal cases that he and the recipients of his texts who are also police officers worked on have to be revisited. It is important that authorities react when they detect racism from police officers out in the open because they have the licence to kill when necessary and racial bias may cause them to see necessities where there are none.
Image Description | A police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
More Racist and Homophobic Texts by San Francisco Police Are Found
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, law, politics, texting, threat
Summary | Text messages of a San Francisco police officer showed highly offensive language about various races, enthnicities, and LGBT people. Now all criminal cases this particular officer and the officers receiving his messages have worked on have to be reopened and examined for injustice due to racial and other bias.
Image Description | Police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politics, privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | Apple's refusal to aide the FBI with breaking into the phone of the San Bernardino attacker has unleashed a political debate among Americans. IT experts as well as lay people report that they have had discussions about the topic with other people, some say they have had fights over Facebook with family members about the issue. Polls show that the American people are hugely divided on the topic: 42% think Apple should cooperate with the FBI while 47% support Apple's stance to protect user privacy.
Image Description | Getty image of a protest crowd showing a man holding up his smartphone with the text: "Don't turn our phones into FBI drones".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Obama Shifting Online Strategy on ISIS
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, politics, privacy, threat
Summary | President Obama wants to use surveillance techniques of new media to find IS terrorists. Tech companies, however, increasingly offer their users encrypted messaging services and refuse to hand over the keys to the government. Companies are protecting their users' privacy but also giving terrorists safe channels of communication.
Image Description | Portrait of Apple’s chief executive.
Image Tags | male(s)
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