In April, Charlie Kirk and his conservative youth organization Turning Point spent about $5,000—chump change for their $80 million operation—on a familiar product for them: another round of Facebook ...

I created a Facebook account recently. No one was more surprised than myself. From my book, "The Indispensable Right," to my past columns, I have been one of the most vocal critics of Facebook and ...

In the middle of the last decade, Facebook decided it needed to build AI to fight hate speech. While the technology did work in some cases, we’ve also seen glaring failures. After the Christchurch ...

Hi, folks. For the most part, this week was the usual mix of disasters and screw-ups. But then came the uplifting news that courageous journalist Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize. Thanks, ...

Jakarta, Indonesia — Years after coming under scrutiny for contributing to ethnic and religious violence in Myanmar, Facebook still has problems detecting and moderating hate speech and misinformation ...

There’s more trouble in Zuck-town. A new Facebook whistleblower has reportedly emerged, dishing to US regulators that an official at the social network in 2017 blew off concerns about hate speech as a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in ...

Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries, according to a new report. FILE - The Facebook app is shown in the app store on a smart phone ...

Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for policy and global affairs, insists the platform's algorithms filter and "deprecate bad content." Getty Images Facebook’s controversial algorithms protect its ...

For years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted his mission to connect the entire world — and his company has come closer than perhaps any other to fulfilling that lofty goal, with more than 3 billion ...

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