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Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say | The Guardian
by Aisha Gani
3 days ago
On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more…
The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat became digital traps for Chinese Uyghurs | Rest of World
by Darren Byler
October 14, 2021
The young Uyghur man, whom I’ll refer to as Qeyser, saw a phone for the first time in 2005, when…
Small Platforms and the Gray Zones of Deep Extreme Speech
October 13, 2021
Abstract: Recent trends of migration to smaller social media platforms among right wing actors have raised a caution that an…
Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. | WSJ
by Justin Scheck, Newley Purnell, and Jeff Horwitz
September 21, 2021
In January, a former cop turned Facebook Inc. investigator posted an all-staff memo on the company’s internal message board. It…
Platforms Not Required to Amplify Officials’ Harmful Speech, Argues Institute’s Litigation Director | Knight First Amendment Institute
by Bilal Choudhry
September 15, 2021
Social media platforms should allow public access to harmful speech by politicians and government officials, but should refrain from amplifying…
Tackling online hate speech one emoji at a time | Oxford Internet Institute
by Hannah Rose Kirk
August 24, 2021
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) exposes critical problems in how emoji-based online hate is tackled, with OII…
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” | Columbia Journalism Review
by Scott Winter
August 24, 2021
Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…
How social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan | Rest of World
by Alizeh Kohari
August 4, 2021
Last fall, in a corporate office in Lahore, 25-year-old Siraj, a fintech professional just two months into his new job,…
Extremism Online | Essay Series
July 28, 2021
Extremism Online In this essay series from Items, the SSRC’s digital forum, researchers examine how right-wing extremism ideologies multiply through…