Facebook released new figures about its attempts to stop the spread of videos after a shooter livestreamed his attacks on two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques last Friday, killing 50 people. In a blog post, Facebook vice president and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said that the video was viewed less than 200 times during the […]
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Y Combinator survey confirms what we already know — female founders are too often victims of sexual harassment
Y Combinator partnered with Callisto, a sexual misconduct reporting software built for victims, to survey its roster of female founders.
View More Y Combinator survey confirms what we already know — female founders are too often victims of sexual harassmentGaming community responds to Florida mass shooting
The online gaming community is responding to the mass-shooting that occurred at a Madden 19 competition in Jacksonville, Florida, as reports identify the shooter involved in the attack and his victims. Mass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several dead The shooter was identified by police as a 24-year-old white male, believed […]
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Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, hate speech and harassment taking place across its platform, has removed one of the means for online abusers to troll their victims. The change […]
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President Donald Trump had a closed meeting about the correlation between violent video games and real-life violence Thursday, and the only substantive thing that has emerged is one very gory and entertaining YouTube video.
The White House posted an unlisted YouTube video Thursday titled “Violence in Video Games” — a montage of violent clips from various video games including Fallout 4, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, The Evil Within, and Wolfenstein: The New Order. The video was shown to attendees at the beginning of the White House’s meeting about violent video games, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Read more…
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View More Trump had a meeting about violence in video games and all we got was this stupid montageReddit bans board where men posted misogynistic content and even advocated rape
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Reddit’s crackdown on violent content continues with the ban of a board called “Involuntary Celibates” /r/Incels in which people posted misogynistic content and even incited rape.
In its description, the community said it was a “support group for people who lack romantic relationships and sex.”
But a quick look on some cached posts shows the board was a hornet’s nest for brutal hate content directed at women, who are described as “femoids” or “fembots”:
Other posts are titled “all women are sluts” and “females love getting abused by good looking men.” Read more…
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