admin | August 2, 2020
January 27, 2020, marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. However, a recent survey of 16,395 people who identified as Jewish, across 12 EU member states by the EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), found that 89 percent of respondents said that anti-semitism had increased over the last five years in the countries they lived in
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on 75 years after Auschwitz, Eva Erbens untold story reminds us why anti-semitism should be confined to history – YourStory
Tags:
admin | July 29, 2020
The Stop Hate for Profit campaign began in the U.S. with a trickle that became a flood. Brands like REI, Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia were among the first to sign on.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on The moment of reckoning for the Facebook advertiser boycott – POLITICO
Tags:
admin | July 29, 2020
The Anti-Defamation Leagues Cleveland office launched an initiative July 27 the Ohio Legal Assistance Project to support victims of anti-Semitism and extremism who are interested in using civil litigation as a tool to combat hate in Ohio. At a time of rising anti-Semitism and extremism across the country, including here in Ohio, we want to make sure that we at ADL are doing all that we can to support victims who may be interested in taking legal action, said James Pasch, regional director of ADL Cleveland in a news release
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on ADL to use civil litigation to fight anti-Semitism in Ohio – Cleveland Jewish News
Tags:
admin | July 29, 2020
David Aronds The One and Only Jewish Miss America is among the 40+ films featured at this years Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Annual Whistleblower Film Festival to Feature The One and Only Jewish Miss America, Documentary Film about an anti-Prejudice Whistleblower -…
Tags:
admin | July 29, 2020
Written by Neha Banka, Edited by Explained Desk | Kolkata | Updated: July 29, 2020 6:00:23 pm Yair Netanyahu pushes content on social media that appeals to his fathers right-wing political base, a group of ardent supporters who are called Bibists, a play on the prime ministers nickname Bibi. (Photo: Twitter/ @YairNetanyahu) Yair Netanyahu, 29, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has no formal role in Israels government but he is never far from controversy and ensuing headlines. In his latest gaffe, the younger Netanyahu shared a Twitter image of Goddess Durga superimposed with the face of Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit and the tiger superimposed with that of prosecutor Liat Ben Ari, who are both investigating an ongoing corruption case involving his father
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Durga meme row and other reasons why Israeli PMs son Yair Netanyahu is always in news – The Indian Express
Tags:
admin | July 29, 2020
Donald Trump has made warnings about the threat of antifa and far-left fascism a central part of his re-election campaign.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years – The Guardian
Tags:
admin | July 23, 2020
With help from John Hendel and Cristiano Lima Programming announcement: Our newsletters are evolving.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on 5G takes the Senate stage – Politico
Tags:
admin | July 23, 2020
The news: Facebook says it is setting up new internal teams to look for racial bias in the algorithms that drive its main social network and Instagram, according to the Wall Street Journal. In particular, the investigations will address the adverse effects of machine learningwhich can encode implicit racism in training dataon Black, Hispanic, and other minority groups.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Facebook says it will look for racial bias in its algorithms – MIT Technology Review
Tags:
admin | July 23, 2020
Facebook is forming new internal teams dedicated to studying its main social network and Instagram for racial bias, in particular for whether its algorithms trained using artificial intelligence adversely affect Black, Hispanic, and other underrepresented groups.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Facebook will study whether its algorithms are racially biased – The Verge
Tags:
admin | July 23, 2020
As TikTok is pulled into politics and faces bans by countries over privacy issues, it is in an unusual situation whereby it could have its meteoric rise stunted, for different reasons than any other platform before it. There was a time when trouble for social networks simply meant not gaining sufficient user engagement, as the likes of Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, Google+ can attest. However, as a Chinese-owned social network, TikTok's future has been thrown into doubt by an altogether more modern problem geopolitical privacy concerns.
Category: Anti-Defamation League |
Comments Off on Facing geopolitical conflicts and bans, does TikTok still have a future? – The Drum
Tags: