Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Digital Youth Index study: young LGBTQ+ people in the UK are more than twice as likely to face hate speech online compared to those identifying as heterosexual — Digital Youth Index study finds minority groups also more likely to feel being online has had negative impact
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Audio: citing security, Meta execs privately told rights groups that a decision “at the highest levels” prevented a more detailed report on hate speech in India — Executives at the Facebook parent privately shared with rights groups their disappointment about the sparse report, according to audio recordings
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
[Thread] Elon Musk says “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets”, reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee — New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography — Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
Washington Post:
Some online disinformation experts criticize Twitter’s approach to Libs of TikTok, as some US hospitals face threats following posts by the anti-LGBTQ account — Employees are warning colleagues to take action against the anti-LGBTQ account, saying it’s ‘only a matter of time’ its posts lead to violence.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Survey of 8,000 young people in nine European countries finds 34% have pirated content, 27% reported trolling someone, 22% reported inciting violence, and more — EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries
New York Times:
A look at Germany’s hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ are charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes — Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online …
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