admin | October 16, 2020
YouTube is the latest social network to take action to limit the spread baseless conspiracy theories online. The Google-owned video platform followed the lead of Twitter and Facebook by announcing an expansion of their existing hate and harassment policies on Thursday. YouTube will "prohibit content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence", the company said in a blog post
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admin | October 16, 2020
YES on Prop 17 Will Restore Voting Rights to Nearly 50,000 Californians Who Have Completed Prison Terms FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContacts:Shay Franco-Clausen, [emailprotected], 408-966-8157Rafael Medina, [emailprotected], 202.869.0390 SACRAMENTO, CA Today, the Yes On Prop 17 campaign announced a wide array of endorsements from leading national and state advocacy groups, Ben & Jerrys, and The Sacramento Bee in favor of Proposition 17, a measure on the November ballot that would restore the right to vote for nearly 50,000 Californians who have completed their prison terms. Among the latest wave of national endorsers are Color Of Change PAC, Human Rights Watch, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Urban League, R Street Institute, The Sentencing Project, and UnidosUS
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admin | October 16, 2020
Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp) were in charge of the National Mobilization Committees Chicago office, and both were former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. Hayden was an established organizer of student protests, including the occupation of campus buildings at Columbia University. Davis, the only defendant other than Hoffman to testify, offered a powerful account in court of his experience in Grant Park during the week of the convention, when multiple officers beat him to the point of losing consciousness
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admin | October 16, 2020
Experts who track extremists say the loosely organized groups can serve as a gateway to radicalization and in extreme cases, that can lead to planned acts of domestic terrorism such as those described in the Michigan plot. Some of these groups deny being anti-government extremists. On the Three Percenters website, the organization states: We are NOT a militia.
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admin | October 16, 2020
Californians are voting on a number of propositions that deal with a wide variety of issues this election season. Heres a closer look at Proposition 16, which deals with affirmative action
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admin | October 12, 2020
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Communities United for Respect and Trust (CURT), a coalition of organizations and community members committed to making Staten Island more inclusive, will host a series of public Zoom meetings as part of its 17th annual summit focused on race, hatred and social justice. The summit will run from Tuesday, Oct
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admin | October 12, 2020
In response to several incidents of hate speech and antisemitism at public schools in San Mateo over the last few years, a county grand jury has released its report scrutinizing how administrators are handling the difficult issue.
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admin | October 12, 2020
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) The alleged foiled plot to kidnap Michigans governor is a jarring example of how the anti-government movement in the U.S
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admin | October 8, 2020
Lerner joins Arizona regional advisory board for the ADL In September, Marc Lerner began a two-year term as the chair of the Anti-Defamation League regional advisory board. A hearing attorney for Mercy Care, board member of the Ryan House and past president of Congregation Beth Israel, Lerner holds an MBA from the W.P
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admin | October 8, 2020
(JTA) Months after beginning to remove QAnon content discussing violence, Facebook and Instagram are now removing all pages and accounts representing the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory with anti-Semitic overtones. QAnon is a false but growing conspiracy theory that alleges that a cabal of liberal, globalist elites sexually abuses children and harvests their blood, and wants to take down Trump. It has been endorsed by Republican candidates for Congress, and Trump has declined to condemn it.
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