AI can now moderate social media and protect brands from trolls and hate speech
Social media moderating for big brands can be pretty hard. The amount of content that can be posted every day is...
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Imprisoning trolls: the rise of hate crimes in the UK and the increasing measures to tackle them
Before the recent uproar of anger regarding Trump’s neutral response to white supremacists in the US, the UK also experienced...
Why the hell did the Federal Reserve create a Facebook page? A troll’s paradise
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors launches a Facebook page with hundreds of negative comments condemning the corrupt institution. In...
Penis Picassos: what to do about the growing problem of visual trolling
Yehudit Mam is the Cofounder and Communications Director of DADA.nyc, a platform where artists and art enthusiasts have visual conversations...
Twitter gives the government 1 billion reasons why a ‘social media ombudsman’ would be unworkable
Twitter tells the Irish government why a state-funded social media ombudsman would be unworkable as the country looks at new laws for social media.
Irish senators want to stop trolls by creating a database of all Internet users’ names & IP addresses
Two Irish senators have called for a database to be created that records every users' name against their IP address in an effort to curb trolls
New media, old issues: Why we need a more modern debate about social & mainstream media
The Irish debate over the use of social media might be new but the issues & grievances are not, so why are we stuck in the past when discussing the future?
Irish Government to investigate whether “regulation” of social media comments is needed
The Irish Government has announced an investigation into whether "regulation" is need of public social media comments & their use by the mainstream media
