08 December 2023
(Police) Data collection was "unreliable", it said, and intelligence gathering "wasn't prioritised".
It found most offenders were white, despite the concerns of politicians about "Asian" grooming gangs.
Tagged with racism
05 September 2022
Amazon has started delaying user reviews posted to its video-streaming service by up to three days to tackle fake ratings.
The move is an effort to tackle a spree of “review bombings” driven, in part, by an “anti-woke” backlash to the diverse casting in the company’s Lord of the Rings prequel series, The Rings of Power, which features non-white actors cast as elves and dwarfs.
24 November 2021
BBC Newsnight has dissected the alleged migrant crisis the UK is supposedly facing at its borders – and concluded that the situation was not quite as overwhelming as the government might have made out.
10 August 2021
The UK was "by far" the main origin of the "abhorrent racist abuse" on Twitter after England lost the Euro 2020 final, the social media platform has said.
Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were abused after missing in the penalty shootout loss to Italy.
Twitter removed 1,622 tweets in the next 24 hours but identify verification "would have been unlikely to prevent the abuse",
28 July 2021
Regulator Ofcom has announced Anna-Sophie Harling will be its online safety principal, dealing with how the tech giants regulate harmful speech.
She will be in charge of implementing the Online Safety Bill, due to come into effect later this year if approved by Parliament.
Ofcom will be able to fine tech firms that fail to remove offending content up to 10% of their global revenue.
But one expert said this would require "bold leadership".
Ms Harling will be part of a team reporting into Ofcom's chief executive Melanie Dawes.
09 July 2021
'Tyler noticed that when he typed phrases about Black content in his Marketplace creator bio, such as “Black Lives Matter” or “Black success,” the app flagged his content as “inappropriate.” But when he typed in phrases like “white supremacy” or “white success,” he received no such warning.'
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