hate speech

Over the past few days, Michael Rich has made multiple trips to the wall he curates on the side of Aura, a music venue on Center Street in Portland. Sometime between Thursday and Friday, it was one of the walls with murals in an alley behind Aura that was splattered with light pink paint and vandalized with homophobic and anti-Black…

Portland police say they have opened an investigation into what happened but that cannot fix damage to the artwork.

Racial slurs and profanity spray-painted on a man’s car in his Maine driveway are being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week.

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week. According to the university, passengers in a vehicle allegedly yelled anti-Asian slurs while driving by several students who were walking on campus. One of the students who says he was threatened and verbally insulted while walking down the street last week says he no…

Someone anonymously left racist flyers promoting a white nationalist website and urging white nationalist ideas on utility poles and car windows throughout Hanover, Massachusetts, on Monday.

The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.

An incident of what officials called pro-rape hate speech is being investigated at Quincy High School.

Senior U.S. Navy commanders have met with sailors on ships on the West Coast after two recent racist incidents triggered one of the first military stand-downs to address extremism in the ranks

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

Facebook is slated to meet today with the organizers of an ad boycott group, which had caused hundreds of large businesses to pull ads from the social media giant’s platform over its lack of regulation on hate speech.

Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, says Facebook needs to do more to clamp down on hate speech on its platform, including de-amplifying some of the worst users, providing more support to users who are victimized and putting more civil rights leaders in positions of authority.

Facebook removed 88 ads Thursday posted by the accounts of President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign and Vice President Mike Pence that the social media giant said were “violating our policy against organized hate.”

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department announced Monday there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against a man who said he donned a Ku Klux Klan hood at a Santee supermarket out of “frustration” over having to wear a facial covering in public during the coronavirus pandemic.

Swastikas were found on the door of a men’s restroom at Worcester State University, according to an email from the school’s dean of students. The swastikas were found on the third floor of the school’s Learning Resource Center by an employee, the Telegram & Gazette reported. The email said the swastikas were reported around 3:30 p.m. Friday and removed...

UConn police have identified the two students who were arrested in connection to an incident involving racial slurs being shouted on campus earlier this month.