Facebook Independent Audit Faults Company Decisions for ‘Significant Setbacks’ to Civil Rights

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John Lewis was a long-serving U.S. representative from Georgia who was one of the most prominent leaders of the American civil rights movement.

Rev. C.T. Vivian was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who worked alongside Dr.

Ted Johnson If there’s one thing that we can be guaranteed from now until Election Day, it’s that we will hear a lot more from Roger Stone, spared from prison after President Donald Trump granted him clemency.The unofficial kickoff was on Monday’s Hannity, as the Fox News hosted landed Stone’s first big interview since Trump commuted a 40-month sentence on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering.

straight to your inboxHere are your Manchester City morning headlines for Tuesday, July 14.Manchester City received significant news when they had their two-year ban from European football overturned. The decision clears them from a UEFA investigation, but the Premier League are holding a separate investigation into the club's finances.

Ted Johnson Facebook said that it has removed more than 100 accounts and pages linked to Roger Stone and his associates for violating their policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior.Stone, who has longtime ties to President Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin serving a 40 month prison sentence next week.

the audit said.Also Read: Facebook Ad Boycott Ushers in a 'New Era' of 'Corporate Activism'A recent example where Facebook fell short, according to the audit, is in its handling of President Trump’s account. The auditors said Facebook’s decision to not remove or add a warning label to the president’s recent post claiming “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” was a significant error.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorA two-year independent civil rights audit of Facebook worred that any advances by the platform that reaches more than 2 billion people “could be obscured by the vexing and heartbreaking decisions Facebook has made that represent significant setbacks for civil rights.”The highly-anticipated third and last update to an audit that started in 2018 was led by Laura Murphy, a civil rights and civil liberties leader and attorneys from civil rights law firm Relman

Emma Sanders was a Mississippi civil rights and voting rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated delegations at the Democratic National Convention.Sanders became involved in civil rights activism in the early 1960s, when her son was participating in a campaign to end segregation in restaurants and churches. A concerned parent, she wanted to make sure her son was safe, and then she found inspiration to join the fight.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorCivil rights activists called a Tuesday meeting with Facebook a wash and said they’re unconvinced the social media giant is doing enough to combat hate speech.“Today we saw little and heard just about nothing,” said Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt during a press conference after a coalition of groups including the ADL, the NAACP, Free Press and Color of Change met with virtually with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg COO Sheryl Sandberg and others on

Ted Johnson President Donald Trump attacked Bubba Wallace on Monday, arguing that the African American NASCAR driver should have apologized over a report of a noose found in his garage stall last month.Trump also claimed that there was a backlash to NASCAR’s decision to ban Confederate flags from its race events.“Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out

Kanye West is hoping to unseat Donald Trump as U.S. leader.The rapper and entrepreneur took to Twitter on America’s Independence Day (July 4, 2020) to re-announce his plan to run for the White House in November (2020).“We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAs the US celebrates its 244th Independence Day, residents are also showing a stubbornly American streak of defiance against pandemic restrictions, some of it egged on by President Donald Trump.Beaches, bars, businesses, restaurants and other areas are closed in Southern California.

Stop Hate for Profit campaign, People reports, which calls on businesses to stop advertising on Facebook to protest its failure to deplatform racist hate speech. Facebook was recently condemned for its refusal to remove Donald Trump's post inciting violence against Black Lives Matter protestors—"when the looting starts the shooting starts," Trump wrote on both Facebook and Twitter—and has long been criticized for enabling the spread of hate speech and misinformation.

tweeted DuVernay of naming the bridge for Lewis rather than Pettus, a senior officer in the Confederate army who later became a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.And the petition about the bridge is just one of many ways in which “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” which opens this week on VOD and in some theaters, is of-the-moment.

CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday. “We don’t benefit from hate speech, of course not.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are doing what they feel like they can do right now to make a difference!

Facebook said Friday that it will flag all "newsworthy" posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump posts suggesting that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud, saying that people deserved to hear unfiltered statements from political leaders.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook is following in Twitter’s footsteps in dealing with controversial and inflammatory statements from high-profile figures — like Donald Trump.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an employee town hall meeting Friday, said the company will start adding warning labels to content posted by politicians that would otherwise violate its policies if it’s deemed to be in the “public interest.”“Often, seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest, and in the