Twitter Gives Online Hate Speech Its Biggest Social Media Platform — Facebook and Google Are Better – The Forward

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But there is also the company providing the platform that trolls love the most: Twitter. To be fair, fighting online trolls is a Sisyphean task.

But experts say Twitter is the worst offender among big media giants in policing hate speech. Facebook or Google are doing a much better job, they say.

For example, when New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman quit Twitter this summer it was not because of the weeklong onslaught of anti-Semitic comments tweeted at him. It was because Twitter refused to do anything about it.

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https://forward.com/news/352133/twitter-gives-online-hate-speech-its-biggest-platform-why/

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05/01/2018, 16:08

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05/01/2018, 12:08