Last Friday Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter who has covered Donald Trump since 2016, announced via an op-ed that she was heavily cutting down on her Twitter usage. “Twitter has stopped being…
When it Comes to Online Hate Speech, Europe is Struggling for Solutions
Europe has a big hate speech problem. In fact, many of its states aren’t entirely sure what hate speech is. Germany has been the most proactive of all European countries in venting…
Tech Companies Must Do More to Counter Hate Speech – European Summit
Some of Europe’s leading politicians and academics have warned tech companies to play a more active role in countering hate speech, at a summit in Monaco. The session, entitled Responding to the Challenges…
Factmata Wins $1m More for its Fight Against Fake News
UK-based fact-checking startup Factmata has won a $1 million funding round. The company, whose 25-year-old founder Dhruv Ghulati drew headlines last year having successfully blind-pitched Mark Cuban, was given its latest round…
This Twitter Bot is Showing How Big Bitcoin’s Nazi Problem Is
Bitcoin has a political problem. In its early days the cryptocurrency was hailed as a utopian tool: a way for regular Joes to avoid the oppressive glare of governments and live in…
Tech Rounds on American Far-Right, as Trump Loses Intel from Manufacturing Council
The events in Charlottesville have shamed America, and shocked the rest of the world. The sight of neo-Nazis marching through an American city conjures all kinds of horrors from a past many…
Dr Moshe Kantor: Tech Giants “Shamefully Slow” to React to Antisemitism
Dr Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor is President of the European Jewish Congress, a Brussels-based representative body of Jewish figures across the continent. He has been a vocal opposer of Google over controversial content…