YouTube, Meta will expand insurance policies, research to fight online extremism

Major tech firms on Thursday dedicated to taking recent steps to fight online extremism by eradicating extra violent content material and selling media literacy with younger customers, as a part of a White House summit on preventing hate-fueled violence. Platforms like Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta Platforms’ Facebook have come beneath fireplace for years from critics … Read more

Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The firm had an bold plan to fight extremism on the platform. So what occurred to it? It had been a lengthy pandemic for Twitter’s analysis group. Tasked with fixing a number of the platform’s hardest issues round harassment, extremism, and disinformation, staffers absconded to Napa … Read more