... done. He’s gone home,” she said, urging Congress to pass police reform. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Vice President Kamala Harris both delivered impassioned speeches calling on Congress to approve the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad package of police reforms that includes a national registry for ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, over hate speech they say was allowed and even promoted on the social media platform amid heated rhetoric over their country's deadly Tigray conflict. Former Amnesty International human rights researcher Fisseha Tekle is one ...
... responsible for content moderation and other crucial tasks. The EU report found Twitter assessed just over half of the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, down from 82% in 2021. Facebook, Instagram and YouTube also took longer, while TikTok was the only one to improve. The ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin thanked veterans for making American "safer and stronger" in a speech under rainy skies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall Friday. Watch Austin's remarks in the player above. "To all of our veterans, lending your talents to the United States ...
He seems to be sort of coming at this issue the way that a lot of the tech platform founders came at it, say, back in 2004, 2005, 2006, this really permissive idea of speech that didn't really take into account the fact that you're going to be ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued another grave warning to the West after his country's military suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks in Ukraine.
At the Emmy Awards Monday night, Sheryl Lee Ralph won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the groundbreaking ABC series "Abbott Elementary," which uses humor to take on the issues confronting public education and equity. Geoff Bennett spoke with Ralph last spring for PBS Weekend as part of our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."
King Charles III made his first address to the nation on Friday since becoming Britain's new monarch after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
President Joe Biden is putting the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment boosting U.S. manufacturing as he visits the political battleground state of Ohio, and the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility.
What do you see? Ayad Akhtar: I think, increasingly, we're seeing a diminished support for the freedom of expression and increased concern about the harms that speech can bring. And so, on some level, there's a larger conversation about controlling speech or controlling what it is that's ...
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