CLICK HERE FOR ENGLISH Le 31 Mars 2023 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada est profondément préoccupé par le fait que Meta, la société mère de Facebook, envisage de retirer de son algorithme la modération du contenu entourant un mot en langue arabe utilisé pour inciter à la violence et au terrorisme. La politique proposée, examinée […]
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Cliquez ici pour le français March 31, 2023 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply concerned that Meta, parent company of Facebook, is considering removing from its algorithm content moderation surrounding an Arabic-language word used to incite violence and terrorism. The proposed policy, under consideration by Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent committee of advisors, will remove
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It is no secret that social media platforms provide easy access to hate and other harmful content. However, their mode of operation, algorithms, reacts to people’s searches and so fuels users with suggested sites according to their interests. These algorithms promote alarming glorification of violence and misinformation in Canada. According to the report, social media
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Dec. 1, 2021 VANCOUVER — B’nai Brith Canada is demanding that the University of British Columbia (UBC) cancel a film screening intended to honour an unrepentant murderer and member of a designated terrorist entity. On Thursday, four groups intend to hold a viewing of the film “Fedayin, le combat de Georges Abdallah” in the Henry Angus
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Version française de l’article ci-dessous Nov. 25, 2021 TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. — Following swift action by B’nai Brith Canada, a resident of Trois-Rivières has been convicted of inciting hatred online against Hasidic Jews. On Jan. 26, 2021, Patrick Lavoie posted in French on Facebook that Jews are a “[Expletive] group of vultures. The worst of all racists on earth, they reject our system and impose their own.” Lavoie suggested blowing up a Hasidic synagogue
Aug. 11, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is proudly participating in an international initiative demanding that Facebook adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. This initiative consists of more than 100 organizations from all over the world coming together to insist on this crucial first step in ensuring that
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January 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Facebook has shut down at least two Canadian-linked pages that have publicly sympathized with the Islamist Regime in Iran, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Last Friday, CNN profiled the “American Herald Tribune” website, revealing that Facebook had deleted its page on the social media website in August of 2018 because it
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July 12, 2017 Technology giants Facebook, Microsoft, Youtube, and Twitter have launched a joint effort to curb terrorist recruitment and extremism on their platforms. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, announced June 26, is an encouraging attempt to collaborate on existing efforts to remove content promoting violence, terrorism and discrimination from the Internet. Although this
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I find the debate surrounding social media platforms’ ethical obligations to be fascinating. The conversation poses questions on whether sites like Facebook and Twitter should be monitored by some form of police in a similar manner to the physical world, which almost always ends in a heated discussion about the issue of free speech, and
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Police in Calgary have launched an investigation into an antisemitic Facebook post that was exposed by B’nai Brith Canada last Friday. Facebook initially determined that the post, which was a graphic explicitly calling for the genocide of all Jews, “doesn’t violate its Community Standards” and the global social media giant refused a request by B’nai
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