Attention has turned to hate groups and the way they organize and spread online after a woman was killed during an attack on people protesting white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following the attack, major web companies began changing or more strictly enforcing their policies to remove hate groups from their platforms. Meanwhile, President Trump’s failure to condemn the attack led to an exodus from and ultimately the dissolution of his private-sector advisory councils.
Aug 20, 2017
Apple is now taking donations for the Southern Poverty Law Center through iTunes
Donations won’t qualify as a charitable donation
Aug 20, 2017
Namecheap has taken down Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer
‘Paired with the support for violent groups and causes [it] passes from protected free speech into incitement’
Aug 18, 2017
GoFundMe raises nearly $1M for the victims of Charlottesville
After banning neo-Nazis and white supremacists from its platform
Aug 17, 2017
Uber says it will continue to ban white supremacists from its platform
Uber says ‘there is simply no place’ for bigotry or hate
Aug 17, 2017
Tech companies’ white nationalist bans are leaving out a lot of hate
Stamping out white nationalism is harder than it looks
Aug 17, 2017
Read Apple CEO’s email denouncing white supremacism in Charlottesville
‘Hate is a cancer’
Aug 16, 2017
Apple Pay is dropping support for websites that sell white supremacist merchandise
Another tech platform pulls back from the fringe hate groups of the online right
Aug 16, 2017
The Daily Stormer just lost the most important company defending it
The web provider CloudFlare has decided to drop the neo-Nazi site
Aug 16, 2017
Barack Obama’s response to Charlottesville violence is the most liked tweet in history
The former president quoted Nelson Mandela in a series of tweets over the weekend
Aug 15, 2017
Charlottesville is reshaping the fight against online hate
Content-neutrality concerns take a back seat after a killing at a white nationalist rally
Aug 15, 2017
Facebook is deleting links to a viral attack on a Charlottesville victim
Daily Stormer article violated community standards, company says
Aug 14, 2017
Google says it will ban neo-Nazi site after domain name switch
Just hours after GoDaddy dropped the site
Aug 14, 2017
Neo-nazi site Daily Stormer threatened by hosting providers and possible hackers
It’s over the site’s coverage on the Charlottesville protests
