Threads of Hate: How Twitter's Content Moderation Misses the Mark
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[node:summary] Twitter’s decision to reinstate influential banned accounts allowed CTS to examine how they act as nodes in broader networks and exploit inadequate policies
Backgrounder: How Can Online Anonymity Affect Hate?
Backgrounder
[node:summary] Role of online anonymity related to harassment, hate, misinformation, toxicity. Benefits and harms of banning anonymity, court cases, international approaches.
Evaluating Twitter's Policies Six Months After Elon Musk's Purchase
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[node:summary] Policy and enforcement developments since Elon Musk acquisition of Twitter and what they mean for enforcement of hate speech policies and protecting users.
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Obstacles and Opportunities for Trust and Safety Teams in the Games Industry
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The ADL Center for Technology and Society interviewed leading trust and safety practitioners in the games industry to understand efforts to address hate and harassment in the game industry.
Twitter Not Enforcing Its Policies on Antisemitic Content
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[node:summary] Despite purported changes to its policy enforcement and the stated intent of its management, Twitter continues to host antisemitic threats and tropes.
Social Media Election Policies: The Good, the Bad and the Misinformed
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False and misleading social media harms elections, undermines public trust, normalizes baseless challenges to elections, stokes harassment and incites violence.
Bad Gateway: How Deplatforming Affects Extremist Websites
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This report analyzes whether deplatforming websites—removing infrastructure services they need to operate, such as payment processing—can reduce the spread and reach of extremism and hate online.
ADL’s analysis found Meta has accepted large sums of money for ads on hateful topics such as antisemitism and transphobia. In some cases, Meta even accepted money for ads that violated its hate speech policy.