Must-Reads

Today on Beacon Hill

11:00am

"Ask the AG" with Attorney General Andrea Campbell on GBH's Boston Public Radio

89.7 FM or gbhnews.org
11:00am

House Formal Session

House Chamber
1:00pm

Joint Committee on Municipalities & Regional Government: Committee Hearing

Written Testimony Only
1:30pm

Governor's Council Assembly

Governor's Council Chamber, Room 360, State House
3:30pm

Public Meeting Notice at the Request of the Lead Conferees

Room 343

Quote of the Day

Meta has come a long way since the days in which Mark Zuckerberg refused to take action against Holocaust deniers posting on his platforms. The social media company said Tuesday that it will extend some of its hate speech policies to the word "Zionist," given that it can be used in an antisemitic manner. "We have determined that the existing policy guidance does not sufficiently address the ways people are using the term ‘Zionist’ online and offline," Meta said. "Going forward, we will remove content attacking ‘Zionists’ when it is not explicitly about the political movement, but instead uses antisemitic stereotypes, or threatens other types of harm through intimidation, or violence directed against Jews or Israelis under the guise of attacking Zionists." It's just the latest example of online platforms moving to address hate speech spurred by the Israel-Hamas war.
Meta will now remove posts containing the term “Zionist” when used in conjunction with antisemitic tropes or dehumanizing rhetoric, the company said Tuesday, in an expansion of its current hate speech policies.

News by Category

Press Releases