Facebook and Twitter approach hate speech differently. Here’s why you should pay attention.
Facebook’s decision to make an exception to its hate speech policy by not removing Donald Trump’s Muslim ban video last week highlights social media companies’ differing and often inconsistent responses to offensive content.
On Tuesday, the European Parliament votes on a law that could move the age of consent for social media from 13 to 16.
If Instagram is “life” for today’s teens, a new proposal in Europe could represent an existential crisis for them. When the European Parliament rules on a new regulation Tuesday, all teens under the age of 16 could be booted off their preferred social media platforms.
It’s not hard to see how a competitive culture and hypercritical management could encourage unethical behavior.
Can a company’s culture foster unethical behavior?
Because it’s too obvious if you call in sick.
The worst part of your company’s holiday party? The morning after. We invited some New York comedians to help us show the myriad of ways the morning after your holiday party can be uncomfortable — from not being able to make eye contact with your colleagues, to maybe hooking up with someone you can’t quite remember, to the accidental overshare, watch this video and use it as a cautionary tale!
Today in McKay Coppins’s tweets
Jack Shafer says it’s ok to cover Donald Trump incessantly so here we go again. At a rally in Las Vegas last night, increasingly violent and deranged supporters of the luxuriously healthy demagogue yelled things like “light the motherfucker on fire” and “Sieg heil” as protesters were dragged out by either security thugs or just regular freelance thugs. Gawker‘s ace political newshound Sam Biddle broke the story, reporting on McKay Coppins‘s tweets. BuzzFeed was beaten to the scoop but managed to file 20 minutes later, with Michelle Broder Van Dyke reporting on McKay Coppins‘s tweets. Mic‘s Luke Brinker followed up this morning, reporting on McKay Coppins‘s tweets. And even those weary dinosaurs of print and TV managed to get in on the story, with the LA Times‘s Kurtis Lee and NBC‘s Benjy Sarlin somehow reporting on their own tweets, which is obviously why legacy media is losing.
A new site, Facebook.com/services, offers a searchable directory of highly rated businesses in your area.
Facebook is quietly testing a new site to help you find highly rated businesses in your area.
The social network wants to support people who use an alias for legitimate reasons, rather than to anonymously bully or threaten others.
In the wake of criticism that Facebook’s “real name” policy is too restrictive, the social media giant is making some changes to its policy to allow users with legitimate reasons to remain anonymous.
The tech giants have vowed to delete posts that violate Germany’s strict hate speech laws.
It’s about to get a lot harder to tweet a racist diatribe in Germany. As per a new deal with the German government, hate speech posted on Facebook, Twitter, and Google will be flagged and removed from the view of German users within 24 hours.
The workgroup wunderkind is helping users find useful tools within the service—and giving startups money to create new ones.
Two key facts about Slack may seem, at first blush, to be contradictory. On one hand, large numbers of companies have rapidly found it essential to their work. On the other, it can be surprisingly difficult to explain exactly what it is.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO apparently arranged for the agency to get the hardware it needed for post-9/11 wiretapping.
During Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina proudly recalled getting a phone call from the National Security Agency shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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