• Twitter Has New Tools in Place to Automatically Flag Abusive Tweets

    Twitter Has New Tools in Place to Automatically Flag Abusive Tweets

    Twitter wants you to spread love, not hate. And as a result, the company gave a status update this week, on their plans to target online harassment, which, according to Twitter, appears to be working. The platform has made “meaningful progress” in moving towards its goal of cutting down abuse on the platform. More specifically,…

  • House Committee to Review Hate Speech with Facebook and Google

    House Committee to Review Hate Speech with Facebook and Google

    If there’s one thing that I cannot stand its hate speech. But I am also a strong proponent of people having their “right” to say the things that they feel and believe in – regardless of how awful that is. Outside of laws, I think there are only two ways that we, as a society,…

  • Apple is No Place for Hate Speech, According to Tim Cook

    Apple is No Place for Hate Speech, According to Tim Cook

    Tim Cook, the CEO for Apple, recently singled out white supremacists and violent conspiracy theorists saying that anyone who is looking to spread hate, have no place using any of Apple’s platforms.  We live in a time when hate speech has become the “norm”.  While this is hard for me to admit, it seems to…