Collaborate Disseminate
This week, CYBER speaks to Freddy Martinez, one of the members of Unicorn Riot, an activist and media collective that’s been tracking and exposing nazis, racists, and other far-right people on the internet. Continue reading How ‘Unicorn Riot’ Exposes The Far Right Online
Far-right Twitter accounts apparently originating in the U.S. amplified pro-Brexit propaganda between December and February and December, according to research published Tuesday by F-Secure, a Finnish cybersecurity company. An analysis of 24 million tweets related to Brexit from 1.65 million users uncovered “inorganic” activity on both sides of the debate, though disinformation was “far more” frequent in among supporters of the United Kingdom’s scheduled withdrawal from the European Union. “At the very least, our research shows there’s a global effort amongst the far-right to amplify the ‘leave’ side of the debate,” Andy Patel, a senior researcher with F-Secure’s Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, said in a statement Tuesday. Researchers determined that several separate accounts retweeted messages from @Brexiteer30, @UnityNewsNet and @JackBMontgomery, an editor with the alt-right Breitbart News. Nearly 6,000 accounts magnified messages from those three far-right accounts, F-Secure found. Many of those pages also included some version of #MakeAmericaGreatAgain […]
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The Trump presidency united far-right extremists and led to a proliferation of Twitter users who self-identify as “alt-right,” according to a new study. Continue reading Support for Trump Is the Single Greatest Factor Uniting the ‘Alt-Right’ on Twitter
“Really, it is this fully fledged different media system with a totally different logic than mainstream media.” Continue reading From Joe Rogan to the Far Right: Inside YouTube’s Alt-Media Ecosystem
Microsoft has given the alt-right Twitter alternative 48 hours to delete two offending posts before it shuts down the company’s cloud server account. Continue reading Microsoft Demands That Gab Delete Post Calling for ‘Eradication of All Jews’
The Daily Stormer has removed all images and references of the famously chill frog after getting DMCA notices from Matt Furie. Continue reading Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Takes Down Pepe Images After Getting Copyright Claims From Its Creator
As hate speech continues to be a top issue for social media platforms, we are publishing an extended selection of training material showing how Facebook sees the issue of white supremacy and hate more generally. Continue reading These Are Facebook’s Policies for Moderating White Supremacy and Hate
What Facebook’s internal guidelines around hate speech say about how the company operates. Continue reading Listen to Radio Motherboard on Facebook’s Reckoning with American Nazis
The far-right adopted Pepe the Frog as its own symbol of intolerance. Breaking with its policy of allowing fictional characters to push hateful messages, Facebook banned certain images of Pepe, according to internal documents. Continue reading Here’s Facebook’s Internal Policy on Pepe the Frog
After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard show Continue reading Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s Post-Charlottesville Reckoning with American Nazis