Shielding Users From Online Abuse: A Free Speech-Conscious Approach to Fighting Harassment
There's no reason why social media platforms can't create a shield that treats online abuse like toxic spam, filtering it out and quarantining it for review. More
The PEN Pod: Online Abuse and the Threat it Poses to Free Speech with Viktorya Vilk
“If we’re serious about fighting online abuse, everybody’s going to have to get involved. We need to train people to defend themselves. We also need allies to step in… More
PEN America Report: Social Media Companies Must Take Concrete Action Now to Blunt Online Abuse
A new report by PEN America spells out a series of clear, consequential product fixes that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies should implement immediately to protect users… More
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The attempted silencing of media and journalists by authoritarian regimes is a global issue. The same is true for the foreign agent law. Read more from our latest piece by @PSadovskaya2020: https://pen.org/nobel-prize-dmitry-muratov-kremlin-foreign-agent-law/
Although NEW KID has since returned to the shelves of the Katy Independent School District's libraries, the debate over the book highlighted fears that similar scenes are going to play out over and over again this year. https://nbcnews.to/30ootb6
