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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  6/29/2021
  

  Does Banning Holocaust Denial on Social Media also Block Education?

  Incidents where social media algorithms take down articles that explore legitimate controversies about the Holocaust suggest that the work of controlling denialism and hate speech needs more refinement. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  5/2/2021
  

  Josh Hawley’s Virtual Reality

  Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/15/2020
  

  Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

  Facebook isn't exactly like they hypothetical "Doomsday Machine" theorized by Cold War nuclear deterrence experts. But its vast scope and capacity to distribute misinformation faster than in can be detected and corrected mean that lessons from the philosophy of nuclear annihilation are apt for understandign the danger of the social media giants. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Lara Trump Seems To Have Gotten Her Abraham Lincoln Quote From A Meme — And It’s Wrong

  Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  8/18/2020
  

  How Can Youtube and Reddit Successfully Fight Holocaust Denial, But Not Facebook?

  A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  The Last Days of the Tech Emperors?

  by Margaret O'Mara

  The mood of Congressional questioning of tech executives recalled the traffic safety debates of the mid-1960s that helped catalyze significantly more regulation for the auto industry.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  7/29/2020
  

  Social Media's Holocaust Denials Are No 'Mistake' — They're Hate Speech

  by Greg Schneider

  It’s long past time for all social media companies to reflect on their role in enabling the hate speech proliferating on their platforms.

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• SOURCE: Wired
  10/18/19
  

  Zuckerberg’s Warped History Lesson and the Age of Incoherence

  by Naom Cohen

  The Facebook CEO invoked the civil-rights era to justify kowtowing to money and power. It doesn’t wash.

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• 10/20/19
  

  To Stop The Rise of Nationalism, We Must Remember High-Tech’s Role in Supporting Past and Present Nationalistic Agendas

  by Clyde W. Ford

  Since the dawn of the digital age, nationalism has relied on digital technology.

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  6/17/2019
  

  History-themed Facebook groups have become a magnet for racist content

  Billed as a place to look at historic photographs, a clutch of history-themed Facebook groups are hosting offensive posts and conversations.

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• 5/26/19
  

  Yes, you should have free speech on Facebook.

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  When blocking content or banning users, Facebook uses its ubiquitousness, power, wealth, and monopoly—made possible by neoliberal transferences of power from “real” governments to private businesses which function as unelected and unaccountable de facto governments—to silence.

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• SOURCE: CSU History Department
  3/13/19
  

  WATCH LIVE ONLINE: From Silent Sam to Phnom Pehn: Monuments and Memorials in History and Myth

  Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!

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• SOURCE: TechCrunch
  12-25-2018
  

  What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg

  Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-5-18
  

  The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s

  by Margaret O’Mara

  Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-26-18
  

  General Kicked Off Facebook Can Still Glorify Military at Grandiose Museum

  For years, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, one of the most powerful people in Myanmar, presided over ruthless campaigns targeting minority groups along Myanmar’s borders.

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• SOURCE: hyperallergic.com
  11-27-18
  

  Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform

  Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Targum
  9-4-18
  

  Rutgers reexamines decision on racially charged Facebook posts made by historian James Livingston

  Did he really violate policies with his satirical post about white people?

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• SOURCE: NPR
  

  Long Before Facebook, The KGB Spread Fake News About AIDS

  Back in the 1980s, the rumor that AIDS was human-made was based partially on a report written in 1986 by Russian-born biophysicist Jakob Segal.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-20-18
  

  Facebook Puts Holocaust Denial Groups in Top Search Results

  The social-media titan’s bad PR continues this week, days after Zuck said his website could not censor Holocaust denial.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-18-18
  

  Zuckerberg: Holocaust Deniers Aren’t "Intentionally Getting It Wrong"

  “I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong,” he said.