SF News Local Woman Targeted In Hate Incident On Way To Talk To Supervisors About Rise In Anti-Arab Hate Local organizer and activist Nadia Rahman wrote about a recent anti-Arab hate incident she experienced in front of City Hall on her way to speak to the Board of Supervisors about the rise in anti-Arab hate in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Big Tech Bigwigs Agree to Strict New EU Hate Speech Moderation Rules, But They’re Free to Just Ignore Them Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have signed on to a European Union agreement to prevent and remove hate speech from their platforms, which seems meaningless, because all of their CEOs and founders were at Trump’s inauguration today.
SF News Suspect at Large After Threatening Anti-Asian Hate-Speech Incident Involving Taser on Muni Bus A man reportedly went on a racist rant aboard a Muni bus last week, and a mother and her teen son are speaking out in the hopes of raising awareness and putting pressure on police.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
Business & Tech Judge Allows Suits to Go Forward Charging That Facebook, YouTube and Reddit Profit From Extremist Content Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
Business & Tech Musk's X Sues Media Matters Over Article Regarding Hate Speech and Ads Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
Business & Tech Reportedly and Predictably, Twitter Seeing ‘Unprecedented’ Rise in Hate Speech Under the Elon Musk Regime It’s apparently open season for hurling racist and homophobic slurs on Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” Twitter, and even ISIS is back in the game as banned accounts galore get reinstated.
SF News Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Page Features Apparent Tribute to Harvey Milk/George Moscone Murderer Dan White Fox News host Tucker Carlson has already proven himself to be among the most hateful and cynical of the channel's prime-time blowhards, and of course he was the same little asshole when he was 22.
Business & Tech Facebook Still Grappling With How Misinformation and Hate Speech Are Very Profitable for Them Engineers at Facebook reportedly labeled certain types of posts internally as “bad for the world,” and when limiting them led to less engagement on the platform, the baddies got boosted back.
Business & Tech Lo and Behold, Zuckerberg Decides to Slap Labels On Trump's Lies Just As Unilever and Major Advertisers Revolt Zuck just announced that Facebook will — after months of mush-mouthed justifications otherwise — begin to label posts by politicians that spread misinformation or otherwise violate Facebook policies.
SF News Two Killed On Portland Commuter Train Allegedly By Man Spewing Hate Speech Update: @MikeBennerKGW reports 2 people have died following stabbing at Hollywood Transit Center in NE Portland https://t.co/mijfevEBwi pic.twitter.com/7AGupoNSPD— KGW News (@KGWNews) May 27, 2017 A man who
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
SF News Inside Cloudflare, The SF Web Company That Reportedly Helps Hate Sites Thrive A recent investigation alleges that San Francisco-based company Cloudflare provides extremist websites with data delivery services and delivers the contact information of people who complain about hate speech to the hate spewers. As
SF News Hackers On Twitter Send Out Swastikas From Major Accounts Like UNICEF, BBC, British Parliament This isn't good, right? pic.twitter.com/nvxWYAutsO— Rob Lopez (@R0BaTO) March 15, 2017 Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts from the European Parliament, BBC North America, Duke University, and other institutions were briefly
Arts & Entertainment 1015 Folsom Cancels Performance By Virulently Anti-Gay Reggae Artist Sizzla Kalonji Notoriously anti-gay reggae artist Sizzla, a.k.a. Sizzla Kalonji, who is nonetheless one of the most prolific and popular contemporary reggae musicians in the world, was set to perform at SoMa nightclub
SF News Money Covered In Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech Used At Alameda Mexican Restaurant A five dollar bill covered in anti-immigrant slogans was used to buy delicious Mexican food at Alameda's La Penca Azul restaurant this past Friday. The bill, upon which someone had written specific anti-Latino
SF News Twitter Allows Promoted Tweet From Hate-Spewing Transphobic Troll In a case in which it appears Twitter had a not-so-strict screening method for a paid advertisement, several promoted tweets were allowed through the system from a fake account that expressed hatred toward
SF News Facebook Acknowledges It Didn't Know What Misogyny Looked Like After allowing troublesome Facebook fan pages like "Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs" and "Kicking your Girlfriend in the Fanny because she won’t make you a Sandwich" linger on their social
SF News Career Suicide: Venues Cancel Upcoming Michelle Shocked Tour Dates After launching into an anti-gay tirade onstage at Yoshi's in San Francisco Sunday night, alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked unleashed a torrent of backlash that looks like an apparent career suicide. The fallout of
SF News Michelle Shocked Launches Into Anti-Gay Rant On Stage at Yoshi's [Updated] Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked, who gained wide fame on college radio and MTV in the late 80s and early 90s but has more recently become a born-again Christian, literally shocked audiences on Sunday
