Facebook Just Announced Plans to Ban White Nationalists and Separatists
Facebook finally banned white nationalism from its platform, though “white power” and similar statements will remain.Anadolu Agency / Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than a year and a half after the platform was used to organize a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Facebook announced on Wednesday that it…
The Supreme Court Won’t Hear the Case of an Inmate Sentenced to Death by Racist Juror
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Keith Tharpe, a black Georgia death row inmate, was sentenced to death in 1991 for the kidnapping and murder of his estranged wife’s sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman. At trial, Barney Gattie, a white juror, sentenced Tharpe to death in part because he…
How the Suspected New Zealand Gunman Weaponized the Internet
Members of the anti-terrorism campaign Turn to Love hold signs outside the New Zealand High Commission in London on Friday, following the mosque attacks.Jonathan Brady/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After every mass murder, journalists, researchers, and horrified members of the public turn to the internet as…
How Facebook and Amazon Help Hate Groups Raise Money
Karla Ann Cote/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Amazon appear to be helping hate groups fundraise through philanthropy tools hosted on their platforms. Mother Jones found dozens of white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ organizations that appear to have access to Facebook’s Fundraiser tool, which lets users and organizations collect…
On the Death Penalty, John Hickenlooper May Have Tried Too Hard to Find a Middle Ground
David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In December 1993, 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, who had recently been fired from a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora, Colorado, shot five of his former colleagues—only one survived. The public was shocked by the gruesome and senseless nature of the murders in a…
California Won’t Charge Officers in the Stephon Clark Case—But the Feds Might
Selena Manni, fiancée of Stephon Clark, wipes tears as she reacts to the decision by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert to not press charges on Saturday.Renee C. Byer/Sacramento Bee/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, March 5, 2019, 5:09 pm ET: Hours after Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced his office…