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Facebook ließ gezielte Werbung an "Judenhasser" zu
(Facebook allowed targeted advertising for "Jew Haters")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, diversity, Facebook, politics, threat
Summary | Facebook is one of the biggest advertising platforms world-wide. It lists target groups for advertisers to choose from. One of those groups used to be "Jew Haters". Facebook removed the target group saying that they will do a better job at curating users into appropriate target groups based on how they position themselves in their profiles.
Image Description | The Facebook logo on a computer screen with a mouse cursor over it.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, hand(s), logo
SVP-Nationalrat Addor wegen Rassismus verurteilt
(SVP parlamentarian Addor sentenced because of racism)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 17.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, law, politics, Twitter
Summary | National councillor Jean-Luc Addor (Schweizerische Volkspartei) was sentenced in court under the anti-racism law. After a fatal shooting in a Swiss mosque, he posted the following on Twitter and Facebook: "We want more of it!" The court decided that this post stripped Muslim residents and citizens of Switzerland of the right to live without any detectable sarcasm which is why he was found guilty of breaking the anti-racism law and will have to pay a hefty fine.
Image Description | Keystone image of Jean-Luc Addor.
Image Tags | male(s)
Was kriecht denn da aus dem Gehölz?
(What's crawling out of the woods there?)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 13.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, law, politics
Summary | After Gina Miller, a business woman of color, sued the British government for implementing the Brexit without the Parliament's approval, a British aristocrat expressed his discontent with her on Facebook. More specifically, he offered a 2000£ reward for the first person to "accidentally" run Miller over with their car. He is now facing a prison sentence in court.
Image Description | N/A
Die Integration von Syrern funktioniert - über Facebook
(The integration of Syrians works - on Facebook)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, diversity, Facebook, law
Summary | The Syrian community in Germany is excellently connected on Facebook. Hundreds of thousands of people are joined in Facebook groups and share their knowledge about asylum-seeking procedures, how to get cheap train tickets, and short video classes about complicated grammatical constructions. The Syrians are pooling their knowledge of all aspects of German culture and are succeding with the integration into the society. Even video comedians explain cultural differences humoristically so that they are getting more and more German viewers. Lately, they have even helped the German police find a terrorist posing as a refugee by sharing his image in their Facebook groups.
Image Description | Screenshots of the Facebook groups.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Afro-Frisur einer Schülerin wird zum Politikum
(Afro hair of a student becomes a political issue)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, hashtags, politics, school, Twitter
Summary | A black girl at a high school in Pretoria in South Africa was chastised for wearing her hair naturally in an afro. This resulted in a lot of backlash against the school on social media under the hasthag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh. As many as 28'000 people signed an online petition to end racism at schools and major polititians condemned the chastising of wearing natural black hair.
Image Description | A black woman doing another black woman's hair in a salon.
Image Tags | female(s)
Neuronales Netzwerk beschreibt Fotos für Blinde
(Neuron network describes pictures for blind people)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new function that tells blind users what is depicted by an image on Facebook. The system does not need human input to recognize the content of images - it has been feed with millions of images to "learn" to recognize certain things like the outdoors and sports. This is a way to include people with visual disabilities better on social media because a lot of the activity there is visual.
Image Description | Facebook feed with photographs explained.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)
Arabische Frauen wehren sich gegen sexuelle Gewalt
(Arab women defend themselves against sexual violence)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, law, politics
Summary | Two women from Palestine have created a Facebook group called "Tuskuteesh" ("break the silence") where they want to give Arab women a space to tell their storiess of sexual violence. Much sexual violence goes unpunished in the Arab world because the perpetrators are often family members.
Image Description | Image of the Tuskuteesh Facebook logo and the cover of a book written by one of the group creators.
Image Tags | female(s)
Mitú grows fast, furious with its Snap alliance
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 22.2.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, smartphone, Snapchat, YouTube
Summary | The video entertainment company Mitù which is geared towards authentic representation of latinos and latinas on various social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and now Snapchat. They have seen some growth since beginning to broadcast on Snapchat. They also noticed that they can build more intimacy with the viewers by not filming in a horizontal format since most their viewers watch their videos from a smartphone and a horizontal video layout creates a distance.
Image Description | Portrait of the person in charge of Mitù's Snapchat presence.
Image Tags | female(s)
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