9 Best Articles in 2021
medium.com
The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse — Humane Tech — Medium
medium.com
9 min read · From 2016 · After building online communities for two decades, we’ve learned how to fight abuse. It’s a solvable problem. We just have to stop…
BuzzFeed
"A Honeypot For Assholes": Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment
BuzzFeed
20+ min read · From 2016 · For nearly its entire existence, Twitter has not just tolerated abuse and hate speech, it’s virtually been optimized to accommodate it. With public backlash at an all-time high and growth stagnatin...
BuzzFeed
After Reporting Abuse, Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse
BuzzFeed
~12 min read · From 2016 · 2,700 Twitter users told BuzzFeed News about their struggles with abuse on the social network.
The Guardian
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber surveillance weapon
The Guardian
9 min read · Jul 18th · Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
New York Magazine
youtube.com
Robot Tries to Escape from Children's Abuse
youtube.com
From 2015 · This video is part of “Escaping from Children’s Abuse of Social Robots,” by Dražen Brščić, Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Yoshitaka Suehiro, and Takayuki Kanda from ATR ...
Guardian Tech
Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web
Guardian Tech
2 min read · 2019-11-24 · Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
Bloomberg
Twitter Ramps Up Fight Against Abuse and Malicious Bots
Bloomberg
5 min read · From 2018 · Twitter Inc. said it’s making changes to combat abuse and malicious automated accounts, including requiring more authentication for new users, in an effort to address complaints that social networking services have allowed harassment and manipulation to run rampant.
TechCrunch
Hands on with Telepath, the social network taking aim at abuse, fake news and, to some extent,…
TechCrunch
~11 min read · 2020-10-11 · There’s no doubt that modern social networks have let us down. Filled with hate speech and abuse, moderation and anti-abuse tools were an afterthought they’re now trying to cram in. Meanwhile,…
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The Washington Post
Opinion: We built a system like Apple’s to flag child sexual abuse material — and concluded the…
The Washington Post
4 min read · Aug 19th · There’s a reason civil liberties groups are calling for Apple to abandon its system.
Guardian music
Afrika Bambaataa sued for alleged child sexual abuse
Guardian music
1 min read · Sep 10th · Hip-hop pioneer has not responded to lawsuit accusing him of repeated sexual abuse and sex trafficking in the 1990s
WIRED UK
How Apple can fix its child sexual abuse problem
WIRED UK
2 min read · Sep 8th · Nobody knows how big Apple’s child abuse problem is. But its photo scanning debacle provides new opportunities to fix it
Forbes
Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Name, Address And Telephone Number
Forbes
4 min read · Oct 4th · In 2019, federal investigators in Wisconsin were hunting men they believed had participated in the trafficking and sexual abuse of a minor.
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3 min read · From 2018 · A collection of examples of how to push the CSS to its limits
Twitter
Progress on addressing online abuse
Twitter
2 min read · From 2016 · Twitter is the fastest way to see what's happening and what everyone is talking about. What makes Twitter great is that it's open to everyone and every opinion. We've seen a growing trend of people...
The New York Times
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2018 · Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control.
WIRED
Here Are Twitter's Latest Rules for Fighting Hate and Abuse
WIRED
7 min read · From 2017 · Memo outlines steps Twitter plans to control hate and abuse on the service, including expanded definitions of nudity and more enforcement.
Los Angeles Times
19 women allege medical abuse in Georgia immigration detention
Los Angeles Times
8 min read · 2020-10-23 · Records and a report obtained by the Times detail allegations of widespread medical abuse and forced sterilization against women held at an immigration detention center in Georgia. The report was…
WIRED
Russia Didn’t Abuse Facebook : It Simply Used It As Intended
WIRED
6 min read · From 2018 · Opinion: When ISIS uses Twitter to recruit or a landlord uses Airbnb to discriminate, that’s not exploiting the platforms' glitches—that’s using their features.
WIRED
Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware
WIRED
8 min read · From 2019 · Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more companies to follow.
Cosmopolitan
Sex Abuse Crisis in Amish Country
Cosmopolitan
~14 min read · 2020-01-14 · A year of reporting—an exclusive partnership between Cosmo and Type Investigations—reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.
