Facebook, Google, Twitter and other tech companies joined a dozen countries in a global pledge Wednesday to step up efforts to keep internet platforms from being used to spread hate, organize extremist groups and broadcast attacks. World leaders, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, and ...
Leaders struggle to make sense of another fatal attack on U.S. synagogue
The rabbi who led a service on the last day of Passover suffered a gunshot wound to his hands and two others endured shrapnel wounds as political, civic and religious leaders across the country struggled to make sense of another fatal attack on a ...
New Zealand's official privacy watchdog described Facebook as "morally bankrupt" and suggested his country follow neighboring Australia's lead by making laws that could jail executives over streamed violence such as the Christchurch mosque shootings. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has been critical of Facebook's response to ...
Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for over a decade
Weeks before a gunman killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, a man had threatened to burn copies of the Quran outside New Zealand mosques, in what community leaders said was the latest in a long list of threatening behavior against religious minorities. Police said they warned ...
Trump calls Jussie Smollett case 'embarrassment' and announces review
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will "review" the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week. Trump wrote in an early-morning Twitter ...
Pig's head found at site of planned mosque in southwest France
Workers building a mosque in southwestern France found a pig's head and animal blood at the entrance to the site on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim places of worship over the past decade. Construction of the mosque in the small ...
New Zealand marks one week since mosque massacre with prayers, scarves
New Zealanders prepared for nationwide prayers on Friday to mark one week since a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead thousands of mourners expected to gather at a park in front of the Al Noor ...
Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police over hate-crime hoax
Television actor Jussie Smollett, arrested last month on a single charge of perpetrating a hate-crime hoax, has been newly indicted on 16 felony counts of falsely reporting to police that he was assaulted by two strangers shouting racist and homophobic slurs. The indictment, returned by ...
Anti-Semitic offences rose almost 10 percent in Germany last year, and violent attacks were up more than 60 percent, crime statistics showed Wednesday, sparking alarm in the Jewish community. Police recorded 1,646 offenses motivated by hatred against Jews, the highest level in a decade, said ...
EU alarmed at study showing 'incurable' anti-Semitism worsening, as many Jews mull emigration
The EU voiced alarm Monday as a survey showed 9 of 10 European Jews believe anti-Semitism has worsened in the last five years, calling it a "canary in the coal mine." The European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said 85 percent of Jews surveyed ...
'Didn't occur in a vacuum': Canada hate crimes rose 47% in 2017, especially against Muslims
Hate crimes in Canada increased 47 percent in 2017, primarily targeting Muslims, Jews and black people, according to figures released by the country's statistical agency on Thursday. The biggest increase was in crimes targeting Muslims, Statistics Canada reported, in a year that saw a deadly ...
Top Democratic lawmaker to probe hate crimes and surveillance of minorities after GOP ranks balked
The presumed incoming Democratic Chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday he plans to investigate the drastic spike in hate crimes and whether federal investigators have wrongfully targeted racial and ethnic minorities instead of focusing on white supremacist groups. In a letter ...
