36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook

The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology. Continue reading 36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook

Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s Post-Charlottesville Reckoning with American Nazis

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

Ex-NSA hacker builds AI tool to hunt hate groups’ symbols online

She’s teaching NEMESIS to find white nationalists’ so-called dog whistles – the Black Sun and Pepe the frog memes – with object recognition. Continue reading Ex-NSA hacker builds AI tool to hunt hate groups’ symbols online