Hateful Content

India's rising content, account takedown requests politically driven: USTR

Content and user account takedown requests, as well as the debate around the motivation for such government actions, have been an issue for the Centre

Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites elections as catalyst

It wasn't just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration. The social media giant has also loosened its rules around hate speech and abuse again following the lead of Elon Musk's X specifically when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity as well as immigration status. The changes are worrying advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to real-word harms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company will remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse," citing recent elections as a catalyst. For instance, Meta has added the following to its rules called community standards that users are asked to abide by: We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality a

Substack says it won't ban extremist speech, censorship not a solution

In the statement, McKenzie said that he and the company's other founders, Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi, concluded that censoring the publications would not make the problem of hateful rhetoric go away

YouTube says it restricts misleading videos, removes harmful ones

According to a Google transparency report, YouTube removed over 14.06 million channels, totalling 86.76 million videos, between April and June this year

Facebook and Instagram: Why Meta removed 27 million posts in India?

Facebook and Instagram removed 2.7 crore posts in India in July 2022. Why these posts were deleted? What do netizens feel about meta? Read this article to know everything

Meta takes down 23.6 mn pieces of bad content in India on FB, Instagram

Meta actioned a huge 15.4 million spam content, 2.4 million violent and graphic content and 1.4 million content related to adult nudity and sexual activity, among others

Govt says has taken several steps to curb harmful content on social media

The government has taken several steps to address the challenges of user harm and hateful information available on social media platforms, Parliament was informed on Friday.

Will 'Facebook papers' be final nudge for social media regulations?

The Facebook papers show Facebook should have done a lot more to curb the spread of hate and violence around the world. Will it be the final nudge for bringing in regulations for social media?

Users can move Oversight Board to remove harmful content from FB, Instagram

This new capability, long-sought by advocates of independent content moderation, represents an important step toward delivering a more principled and transparent model of content moderation

Hateful content: Delhi Assembly panel summons Facebook official on Sept 15

A Delhi Assembly panel has issued a notice to Facebook India vice president and managing director Ajit Mohan asking him to appear before it on September 15

Twitter tests warning prompt on replies with offensive, harmful language

The prompt will come as a pop-up on tweets which carry harmful content

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube face hate speech complaints in France

French law requires websites to take down racist, homophobic or anti-semitic material and tell authorities about it