Hate Speech News and Blog Posts
60 Minutes’ German Censorship Segment: A Recycled NYT Report?
Recommended Reading / February 21st, 2025 / by Andy Gorel
Ahead of German elections, 60 Minutes aired a segment in which it accompanied German police on raids of those who have committed speech crimes. The feature bears striking resemblance to a 2022 report from The New York Times.
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Recommended Reading / May 2nd, 2022 / by Dan Schnur
An unleashed Trump, freed to reassume his forceful but divisive role in the national political debate, could provide an inadvertent rescue to his Democratic foes.
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Common Ground / March 3rd, 2021 / by Jackson Lanzer
Many Americans share the misperception that America is divided on freedom of speech issues. People on different sides disagree about what constitutes hate speech, what types of speech should be pro...
See moreTwitter Suspends Journalist, Because Defining “Hate Speech” is Harder Than You’d Think
Bias / November 28th, 2019 / by Julie Mastrine
On Nov. 25, Twitter temporarily suspended Andy Ngo, a journalist known for ...
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