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Social Media 

Starbucks takes stand against hate speech, pauses all social media advertising

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 DigitalTrends 0 Comments Advertising, against, hate, Media, pauses, Social, speech, stand, Starbucks, takes

Starbucks is joining the growing list of companies that have pulled out advertising dollars from social media, in a stand

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Social Media 

As advertisers revolt, Facebook commits to flagging ‘newsworthy’ political speech that violates policy

June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 TechCrunch 0 Comments ‘newsworthy’, advertisers, commits, Facebook, flagging, policy, political, revolt, speech, violates

As advertisers pull away from Facebook to protest the social networking giant’s hands-off approach to misinformation and hate speech, the

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Social Media 

Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports straight to the feds

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 TechCrunch 0 Comments Feds, Germany, hate, online, Platforms, Reports, rules, send, speech, straight, tightens

While a French online hate speech law has just been derailed by the country’s top constitutional authority on freedom of

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Social Media 

This AI tool helps people with speech difficulties to communicate

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 TheNextWeb 0 Comments communicate, difficulties, Helps, people, speech, This, tool

A new AI tool can help people with speech difficulties to communicate by reducing the number of keystrokes they need to type. Researchers

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Tech 

Tumblr will now remove all reblogs of posts that violate its hate speech policy

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Theverge 0 Comments hate, policy, posts, reblogs, Remove, speech, Tumblr, violate

Tumblr on Monday announced an update to its hate speech policy, announcing on its blog that it would start cutting

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Social Media 

Watch Sacha Baron Cohen skewer Zuckerberg’s ‘twisted logic’ on hate speech and fakes

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 TechCrunch 0 Comments ‘twisted, Baron, Cohen, fakes, hate, Logic, Sacha, skewer, speech, Watch, Zuckerberg’s

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has waded into the debate about social media regulation. In an award-acceptance speech to the Anti-Defamation

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Social Media 

Hate speech, collusion, and the constitution

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 TechCrunch 0 Comments collusion, constitution, hate, speech

Half an hour into their two-hour testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter

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Social Media 

It’s time for Facebook and Twitter to coordinate efforts on hate speech

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 TechCrunch 0 Comments coordinate, efforts, Facebook, hate, It's, speech, time, Twitter

Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, there has been burgeoning awareness of the hate speech on social media

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Social Media 

Snapchat now uses speech recognition to animate your face

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments animate, face, recognition, Snapchat, speech, uses

Feel strange sticking out your tongue to get that Snapchat Lens to change? Snapchat’s latest Lenses react instead to audible

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Nvidia 

Jensen Huang’s Speech at Unveiling of Energy Department’s Summit Supercomputer

June 9, 2018June 9, 2018 Nvidia 0 Comments Departments, Energy, Huang’s, Jensen, speech, Summit, Supercomputer, unveiling

Secretary Perry, Governor Haslam, Senator Alexander, Director Zacharia, Ginnie, John, and the IBM team, and all of the amazing researchers

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