Favorite articles roundup for the week of August 9, 2019
Here’s some interesting articles from the past week, and my thoughts about them. Media iHeartMedia loves podcasts? Art by Gary Barker, Lisa Moore, and Dan …
Tag: hate speech
Twitter can support an open platform without tolerating the “alt-right”
About a year ago, I wrote about how the tech industry’s handling both hate speech and free speech issues. Since then, the past year’s seen …
How to block Twitter trolls in bulk
A look at different ways to block Twitter trolls in bulk, as well as more nuanced blocking approaches, using third party tools.
Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked
Recently, Reddit’s tried to clean up the self-declared “front page of the Internet,” by banning some high-profile racist subreddits. (The fact they had to create …
The tech industry grapples with hate speech
The past week in tech news has largely centered around the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Virginia counterprotests against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, which saw protester …