There is apparently no line Kanye West won’t cross. Even before his dangerous and roundly condemned “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE” tweet got him suspended from Twitter last year, he debuted a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt alongside conservative pundit Candace Owens during his Paris Fashion Week presentation, instantly tarnishing …
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The Trevor Project — the nonprofit suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth — is shuttering its X account, the group announced on Thursday, citing “increased hate and vitriol on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community.” In particular, the organization called out X’s (formerly Twitter‘s) lax content moderation as the key …
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An intelligence community watchdog found that chat apps employed by the U.S. intelligence community had been systemically misused, with users sending messages that “contained transphobia, hate speech and misogynistic discussions.” In a 2021 report written by the Office of the Inspector General (IG) for the Intelligence Community (IC), and obtained …
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Until last week, any Spotify user could access a playlist titled “Musikkorps Der Leibstandarte — SS Adolf Hitler Radio” — so named for the Nazi fuhrer’s personal corps of bodyguards. The streaming service itself generated the track list, and multiple Rolling Stone staffers each received a different mix upon loading …
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On YouTube, engagement is king. The platform, which thrives on its dual status as both a social media network and news space, pays creators handsomely for making videos that get large amounts of views and interactions from any given audience. To keep the worst out, the sheer influx of content …
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