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  • Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, reportedly shot during campaign speech

    Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, reportedly shot during campaign speech

    Jul 08, 2022 03:36 AM EST

    TOKYO — Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. The broadcaster aired footage showing Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. Abe was holding his ...

  • Facebook's system approved dehumanizing hate speech

    Facebook's system approved dehumanizing hate speech

    Jun 09, 2022 03:55 PM EST

    ... ineffective moderation is “literally fanning ethnic violence,” as she said in her 2021 congressional testimony. In March, Global Witness ran a similar test with hate speech in Myanmar, which Facebook also failed to detect. The group created 12 text-based ads that used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the ...

  • New book examines the most notable political speeches that were never given

    New book examines the most notable political speeches that were never given

    May 30, 2022 10:25 PM EST

    ... to get them to take root in much rockier terrain today than they had to earlier in his career. Amna Nawaz: The book is "Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History." The author is Jeff Nussbaum. Thanks for being here.Jeff Nussbaum: Thank you for having me.

  • Zelenskyy calls for 'maximum' sanctions on Russia in virtual speech at Davos

    Zelenskyy calls for 'maximum' sanctions on Russia in virtual speech at Davos

    May 23, 2022 02:50 PM EST

    ... The world is in real serious trouble. This is not rhetoric and B.S. Step up now, because the world needs you." Besides Zelenskyy's speech, a sizable Ukrainian government delegation is attending in person, making their case for more Western support in the country's fight against Russia.Kyiv ...

  • WATCH: House Oversight hearing on threats to free speech and curriculum in schools

    WATCH: House Oversight hearing on threats to free speech and curriculum in schools

    May 19, 2022 01:54 PM EST

    The House Oversight Committee held a hearing Thursday on efforts to limit discussion of history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues in classrooms in several states.

  • The Department of Homeland Security pauses disinformation board amid free speech questions

    The Department of Homeland Security pauses disinformation board amid free speech questions

    May 18, 2022 05:30 PM EST

    The Department of Homeland Security paused the work of its new disinformation governance board Wednesday. The move responds to weeks of criticism from Republicans and questions about whether the board would impinge on Americans' free speech rights.

  • WATCH: Biden condemns 'replacement theory' in speech during an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month event

    WATCH: Biden condemns 'replacement theory' in speech during an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month event

    May 17, 2022 06:35 PM EST

    Fresh from a visit to Buffalo, New York to mourn with grieving families on Tuesday, President Joe Biden exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy.

  • Unanimous Supreme Court rules Boston violated free speech rights in Christian flag case

    Unanimous Supreme Court rules Boston violated free speech rights in Christian flag case

    May 02, 2022 04:15 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the city discriminated against the activist, Harold ...

  • Why a vocal Turkish activist's prison sentence is a 'nail in the coffin' for free speech

    Why a vocal Turkish activist's prison sentence is a 'nail in the coffin' for free speech

    May 01, 2022 09:35 PM EST

    ... don't care about the reaction coming from the west anymore. Geoff Bennett: So what then does this incident say about the state of free speech in Turkey? Ece Temelkuran: Well, this is the last nail in the coffin of freedom of speech and also democracy. Because at least since ...

  • Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Apr 26, 2022 02:31 PM EST

    ... experience in moderating an influential social media platform will be a problem if he successfully takes over the company."If we want to protect free speech online, then we can't live in a world where the richest person on Earth can just purchase a platform that millions of people ...

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