admin | October 27, 2021
WASHINGTON The past several weeks have been difficult for the social media behemoth Facebook, with a series of whistleblower revelations demonstrating that the company knew its signature platform was exacerbating all manner of social ills around the globe, from human trafficking to sectarian violence. The tide shows no sign of receding.
admin | October 27, 2021
What kind of person signs up for an antigovernment militia with a government-issued email address?
admin | October 24, 2021
While Facebook profiles may not explicitly state users race or ethnicity, my research demonstrates that Facebooks current advertising algorithms can discriminate by these factors. Based on research conducted in 2020 and 2021, I used Facebooks advertising tools to test how advertisers can use their targeting options like multicultural affinity groups, Lookalike Audiences, and Special Ad Audiences to ensure their ads are reaching white, African American, Asian, or Hispanic users. What I found is that discrimination by race and ethnicity on Facebooks platforms is a significant threat to the public interest for two reasons.
admin | October 20, 2021
A Denver high school was targeted with graffiti displaying messages of hate, antisemitism, racism and homophobia over the weekend, and a Jewish private school had a window smashed and its electricity cut off, officials said.
admin | October 18, 2021
Pittsburgh will host global leaders this week at a summit that seeks to find a bipartisan response to the rise in extremist hate, nearly three years after a gunman killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue. The first annual Eradicate Hate Summit will feature speeches from former President George W. Bush; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt; and Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the United Nations special advisor on the prevention of genocide.
admin | October 15, 2021
On Wednesday, October 6,the Anti Defamation League (ADL) kicked off theNo Place for Hate Back to School initiativewith Amanda Gorman. Congratulations to JaKhya Bush, Hubert Middle School 8th grade student, who was selected to participate in the interview portion with Gorman via a zoom interview. Amanda Gormanis an Americanwriter,poet,activistand change maker
admin | October 15, 2021
Holocaust-related remarks by an administrator of a school district in a Fort Worth, Texas suburb are drawing nationwide attention, CBS Dallas reports. In the remarks, secretly recorded by a staffer of the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake and given to NBC News, the administrator told teachers last week that they should offer students access to a book with "opposing" views on the Holocaust if they have a book in their classroom about the Holocaust. NBC News says the district's executive director of curriculum and instruction, Gina Peddy, made the comment while training teachers on books they're allowed to have in their classroom libraries under a Texas law known as House Bill 3979
admin | October 15, 2021
Lansing Michigan Rep. Daire Rendon, a Republican from Lake City, wore a button to a rally outside the Capitol Tuesday that featured an American flag with a gold "Q" on it, a letter that has become a symbol for a right-wing conspiracy theory movement.
admin | October 15, 2021
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admin | October 15, 2021
Lamb says the network takes its inspiration from Live PD, an A&E show that ran from 2016 until 2020, when it was canceled after deputies in Williamson County, Texas, were caught on camera tasing a man named Javier Ambler, and ultimately killing him. (In response to the incident, Texas passed a state law that forbids law enforcement agencies from partnering with reality television shows.) Before its cancellation, Live PD was immensely popular, capturing more viewers than any other cable program on Friday and Saturday nights. Lamb was a fixture on the show, as well as a host of a spinoff, Live PD: Wanted, which focused on catching fugitives
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