Tag Archives: Anti-Defamation League

Facebook criticized for not doing enough to enforce its Holocaust denial policy

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Last year, Facebook finally banned Holocaust denial content, after tacitly allowing it to fester on its site for years. And today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the company touted efforts to connect people to “credible information about...

Two-thirds of online gamers in the US experience ‘severe’ harassment

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It's no secret that online gaming can harbor toxic and abusive behavior. But a new survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says as many as many as two-thirds of US online gamers have experienced "severe" harassment. More than half of the responden...

Twitter can’t separate verification from validation

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2016 was a dumpster fire of a year for Twitter. Abusive language and toxic interaction became the norm across the microblogging site as it saw a dramatic rise in activity from users on the far right and their crystallization into the Alt-Right moveme...

Lena Dunham faces Severe Criticism for comparing Jewish Boyfriend to Dog

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Lena Dunham wrote a lengthy article for the New Yorker in which she denigrated her Jewish boyfriend, Jack Antonoff, by comparing his behavioral repertoires and entrenched habits with that of a pet...