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Mar 22, 2022, 11:29 AM

Does the Online Safety Bill really keep us safe?

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

It was a very big day for the UK’s digital world last Thursday, as the Government’s Online Safety Bill was finally published. Green paper, White Paper, interim and full responses, pre-legislative scrutiny but we are finally at the dawn of a new era in which...

May 20, 2021, 9:35 PM

Some searching questions for Google on hateful images

Google (Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash)

Big data is helping us to understand the world. Though there are important caveats and notable drawbacks, these large and complex datasets can and already are helping us to get better at identifying cancer, combating climate change and even understanding and fighting racism. In 2019,...

Jul 30, 2020, 11:50 AM

Time to take action on social media hate

Screenshots of grime artist Wiley's antisemitic tweets (credit: Jewish News)

For 48 hours, leading Jewish and non-Jewish celebrities, politicians and others left Twitter. The walkout followed a failure to act, by both Instagram and Twitter, against a litany of anti-Jewish racist and hateful posts by Grime artist Richard Cowie, otherwise known by his moniker Wiley....

Mar 2, 2020, 3:53 PM

Why we shouldn’t ignore conspiratorial hate in Westminster

Baroness Tonge speaking in the House of Lords (Screenshot via Jewish News)

Before he entered the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered 11 Jews in Pittsburgh, Robert Bowers was posting conspiracy theories on the internet forum Gab. “Open you Eyes! It’s the filthy EVIL jews Bringing the Filthy EVIL Muslims into the Country!!”[sic] For Bowers, it was...

Apr 27, 2018, 4:26 PM

Tackling group discrimination in the press

This week, editors of national newspapers and the Editor’s Code Committee appeared before the Home Affairs Parliamentary Select Committee as part of its inquiry into hate crime and its violent consequences. Whilst social media often has the spotlight for its lack of regulation, it is...

Feb 5, 2018, 12:52 PM

The educational tool we must not deny our young people

Not many of us that grew up before the mid-nineties learned how to budget at school. We didn’t discuss mental health, sexuality or internet safety in the classroom. If we thought about body image, chances are it was something to do with holograms rather than...

Nov 1, 2017, 3:59 PM

The Livingstone Formulation 2.0

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Jewish communal allegations of antisemitism are being fabricated, in order to dismiss them. In recent times, the public has been exposed to a number of new trends. We have Fake news, or deliberate misinformation seeded in...

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Danny Stone MBE is Director of The Antisemitism Policy Trust