• ‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground

    Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed spent four years following the circus created by the rightwing TV host after he claimed the Sandy Hook school shooting never happenedThere is a statistic dropped into the middle of the new HBO documentary about Alex Jones and his conspiracy-theory-laden campaign to deny the Sandy Hook school massacre that is so startling it changes the complexion of the film.It’s tempting to see the blustering alt-right Infowars host as little more than a charlatan selling...

  • Elon Musk and X lose lawsuit against anti-hate nonprofit

    Elon Musk and his social media platform X suffered an embarrassing defeat in court this week over a hate speech tracking group's reporting on the company.

  • US Government Sues Apple in Landmark Anti-Trust Lawsuit

    According to people familiar with the matter, the United States Justice Department is preparing a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. The suit, expected to be filed today in a New Jersey federal court, represents the latest in the Biden administration's attempts to deal with monopolization in big tech. [Read More]

  • Anti-trans hate is ‘widespread’ on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns

    Meta is failing to enforce its own rules against anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. The LGBTQ advocacy group found that “extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.” The report documents dozens of examples of hate speech from Meta’s apps, which GLAAD says were reported to the company between June 2023 and March 2024. But though the posts appeared to be clear violations of the company’s policies, “Meta either...

  • A judge just killed Elon Musk's lawsuit against an anti-hate research org

    A federal judge sided against Elon Musk today, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Musk and X that targeted a nonprofit that researches online hate. X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) last year, accusing the group of spreading misleading claims after it published a series of unflattering reports about hate and extremism on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • French hate crimes surged after outbreak of Gaza war, government report shows

    Racist, xenophobic and religion-based hate crimes surged 32 percent in France last year, government figures showed Wednesday, with a spike following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

  • Meta Fails to Enforce Anti-Trans Hate on Social Media, Advocates Raise Complaint

    Meta is now seeing a complaint from LGBTQ advocacy groups about the social media platform's anti-trans hate content.

  • Alex Jones warns Texans the 'deep state' plans sinister shit for the solar eclipse

    Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is howling at the moon again. With April 8's highly anticipated total solar eclipse drawing near, Jones has fired off tweets suggesting the event is something out of biblical prophecy that somehow involves the Department of Homeland Security and a "New World Order." "The government is hyping the solar eclipse like it's the end of the world.

  • Alex Jones apologizes for calling Glenn Beck a CIA agent: 'I was probably drunk'

    Alex Jones has been right about a lot, but there’s one thing he was definitely wrong about. Years ago, the "InfoWars" host accused Glenn Beck of being a CIA agent, but in a recent interview on "Pat Gray Unleashed," Jones apologized for the incident and admitted that he “was probably drunk” when he said it. He went on to thank Glenn for his work over the years exposing the plans of the dubious global elites. “I think Glenn Beck’s done some of the best work ever done. Exposing the Soros...

  • Judge dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against anti-hate watchdog on free-speech grounds

    A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the company formerly known as Twitter, which sued a hate-speech watchdog group it blamed for a loss of millions of dollars in advertising. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the lawsuit was intended to punish the Center for Countering Digital Hate for its criticism of X, and so violated California's ban on lawsuits designed to squelch speech. After he acquired Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk welcomed back numerous users who...

  • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor still gets called Nidge on the street a decade after Love/Hate

    "I look back on it as a very wonderful time and I’m very grateful for it"

  • "We Need Somebody Disruptive": Alex Jones, Former Bush Official Clash In Trump ZeroHedge Debate

    "We Need Somebody Disruptive": Alex Jones, Former Bush Official Clash In Trump ZeroHedge Debate Last night kicked off the fifth ZeroHedge debate on the question: "Should Donald Trump be the next U.S. President?" The debate featured Infowars host Alex Jones and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos vs. independent journalist Michael Tracy and former George W. Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter. Tracey came in hot, accusing Trump of being...