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Extremists driven off Facebook and Twitter targeting smaller firms
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Small social media networks don't have the same resources as big social media platforms to fight terrorists. Because platforms such as Facebook or Twitter can quickly block accounts supporting terrorism, extremists need to find other "smaller" platforms.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand using a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s)
Germany Tells Sites to Delete Hate or Pay Up
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | Germany has the strictest policies when it comes to illegalizing slanderous, threatening, and extremist language from public spaces. Germany has just passed a law that allows them to fine Facebook as much as 57 million dollars if they do not remove offensive content quickly enough from the platform. While some may say this is censorship , German lawmakers claim that respectful online encounters are a necessity for free speech to thrive. Facebook is now working on improving the flagging process for offensive material and are also using artificial intelligence to remove fake news.
Image Description | Blurry man looking at a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
What the Kitty Genovese Killing Can Teach Today's Digital Bystanders
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | There are a few services now which allow smartphone users to broadcast videos live, for example on Facebook and on the Perscope app. Multiple people have already livestremed crimes like murder or sexual assault with a live audience watching without anyone having called the police. This is not right even though bystanders are no legally obliged to step in if they see a crime happening in most states.
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A hunt for militants at a key location: the Internet
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 6.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, texting, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | The EU's police organization as well as the US government are targeting IS material online in their battle against terrorism. Attempts to intercept communication via encrypted instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have failed. The IS also uploads video and other content to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. These social media platforms report to have deleted hundreds of thousands of entries linken to the IS.
Image Description | Portrait of a high profile IS member.
Image Tags | male(s)
In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 1.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | computer programming, Facebook, fake news, Google, law, politics
Summary | In light of recent elections, many people are eager to combat misinformation online. Major tech companies like Facebook and Google are being pressured to purdue solutions to stop the spread of fake news on their platforms. Germany even demands fines from Facebook for not complying with federal laws targeted at keeping hate speech and fake news controled. Competitions with rewards of several thousand dollars are asking for programmers to come up with fact-checking software which can weed out false news.
Image Description | Image of a computer programmer working on solutions to flag fake news and a Reuters image of election posters from France.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, law, threat
Summary | Since Facebook has enabled its livestream functions many crimes have been broadcasted on Facebook. Facebook still struggles to take such offensive content down. Recently a man livestreamed himself killing his daughter and the recording stayed online for twenty hours. Facebook needs to improve its artificial intelligence mechanism to flag such content faster.
Image Description | Reuters image of people crying.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook lets streams of depravity flow freely
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, law, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Facebook is facing many criticisms about its poor enforcement of basic standards of content on the platform. Multiple violent live streams have been uploaded to Facebook in the past in it always took Facebook too long to take them down. Their algorithm to weed out pornography has backfired when they censored a historic photograph of a napalm victim from the Vietnam War because it registered as child pornography. After much denial, Facebook are finally taking steps against fake news spreading on their platform. All this may be called censorship but without moderation there can be no free speech because bullies dominate the discourse.
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Daily Report: Facebook Struggles With Being Responsible
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, law, pornography, threat
Summary | Facebook and other social media have a huge problem with inappropriate or criminal content being posted to their platforms. Recently, a man in Ohio posted a video to Facebook of him shooting and killing a man. It took Facebook two hours to take it down. So far, artificial intelligence algorithms have been very successful in detecting nudity/pornography and blocking it but finding violent content is still very much dependent on user action.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg biting his lips.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal bodies raises troubling ideas of ‘decency’
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, diversity, Facebook, gender, law
Summary | Facebook does not mind showing Kim Kardashian’s cleavage, but it didn't allow images of topless Aboriginal women. Major social network platforms are led by capitalism, and although they claim they want to create global and equal platforms, not all stories are treated the same way. As a result, On Facebook, images of famous women naked are okay whereas images of other women around the world are deemed “inappropriate”.
Image Description | Photograph of four Aboriginal women
Image Tags | female(s)
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 6.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, law, politics, social media
Summary | Facebook has recently decided to comply with German law rather than their own corporate policies when it comes to hate language on their platform contributed by users from Germany. Germany is very strict about prohibiting hate language against minorities. Critics say this is a step in the wrong direction towards censorship.
Image Description | Protest crowd holding a canvas.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text
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