Discord's new policies ban dangerous health misinformationThe chat service will also consider off-site behavior in its decisions.By J. Fingas, 02.25.2022
Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policyThe company was flooded with bogus reports.By J. Fingas, 12.04.2021
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will collaborate to make gaming saferThis inclues efforts to fight hate and harassment.By J. Fingas, 12.14.2020
Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 hateful subreddits since June 29th‘People are weirdly creative about how to be mean to each other.’By C. Fisher, 08.20.2020
Facebook removes massive QAnon group over hate and harassment claimsThere were almost 200,000 members.By J. Fingas, 08.08.2020
Starbucks pauses all social media ads over hate speech concernsIt's not limiting its action to Facebook, either.By J. Fingas, 06.28.2020
Facebook removes hundreds more accounts over hate speechThe company says it's continuing to 'map out the full network.'By R. England, 06.17.2020
Facebook pulls nearly 200 accounts connected to hate groupsThese users reportedly planned to stoke violence at protests.By J. Fingas, 06.07.2020
'Call of Duty' developer will further crack down on racist playersIt's planning more monitoring and stricter filtering.By J. Fingas, 06.03.2020
Twitter will delete hate speech related to age, disability and diseaseThe expansion follows one from last year in which it started removing hate speech against religion.By I. Bonifacic, 03.05.2020
YouTube's tougher harassment policy cracks down on hate speech and threatsBigoted insults, implied threats and systemic behavior are all forbidden.By J. Fingas, 12.11.2019
Germany synagogue shooter livestreamed attack on Twitch (updated)It's another attempt to spread violent hate through live video.By J. Fingas, 10.09.2019
Congress plans to investigate how social media giants are fighting hateHouse lawmakers are planning legislation to probe tech giants.By C. Fisher, 09.18.2019
YouTube's channel removals soar following hate speech crackdownComment removals nearly doubled after the June policy change.By J. Fingas, 09.03.2019
Beto O'Rourke wants to hold internet companies liable for hate speechBut would it jeopardize overall protections for internet platforms?By J. Fingas, 08.17.2019
House committee asks 8chan owner to testify over extremist contentIt wants to know what the site does to fight extremist material.By J. Fingas, 08.06.2019
Twitter didn't flag Trump's racist tweetsThe company didn't say whether it was deliberate or not.By J. Fingas, 07.16.2019
Twitter revises rules on hate speech targeting religionsIt's expanding its policies to forbid all dehumanizing talk about religion.By J. Fingas, 07.09.2019
YouTube declines to pull videos containing homophobic, racist attacksIt claims Steven Crowder is 'debating' despite bigoted language.By J. Fingas, 06.05.2019
Some Facebook content reviewers will focus solely on hate speechThe pilot could help it spot material before users do.By J. Fingas, 05.23.2019