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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38076579
A leading ad exchange has blacklisted Breitbart News, which until recently was run by one of US President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers.
AppNexus said it would no longer allow Breitbart to sell ad space via its platform, after determining that the site had broken its code on hate speech and incitement to violence.
Breitbart responded saying it "has always and continues to condemn racism and bigotry in any form".
AppNexus has not given examples.
But a spokesman said a "human audit" of Breitbart had flagged several articles that had caused it concern because of the language they had featured.
"We use a number of third-party standards to determine what is and isn't hate speech, and if we detect a pattern of speech that could incite violence or discrimination against a minority group, we determine that to be non-compliant and we simply won't serve ads against it," AppNexus's spokesman Joshua Zeitz told the BBC.
"I'm not going to put the examples out there because I'm not going to engage in a tit-for-tat on what is compliant."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by fritsd on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:08PM
About the Daily Mail:
This is what image they want to present of themselves:
Note that, even though the opinion article is written in the Guardian (left-wing newspaper), it describes facts of a publication in the Daily Mail newspaper.
Why didn't the Daily Mail put the jailing of Jo Cox's murderer on its front page? [theguardian.com]
Context: Jo Cox was a British Member of Parliament who was murdered just before the Brexit referendum. The verdict of the judge was that it was an ideologically/politically motivated murder.
Those are rare. So I think it's newsworthy.
That article also has a link to the story of the murder, but before you decide to click on it, be warned that it may make you feel sick.
R.I.P. Jo Cox.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @07:33AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/21/why-isnt-the-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump-bigger-news/ [washingtonpost.com]
Did the assassination attempt on Donald Trump by a British man make it into the papers there? Do you feel the same sense of outrage?
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:37PM
Yes, it did:
2016-06-20 British man tried to take officer’s gun to kill Donald Trump at rally, police say [theguardian.com]
2016-09-13 British man pleads guilty to plan to shoot Trump at Las Vegas rally [theguardian.com]
Do I feel the same sense of outrage? Interesting question. No, I don't. Members of parliament are not guarded, normally. To go to an MP's office, knowing they will be unguarded and unarmed during their weekly "open meeting hour", shooting them and then stabbing them 15 times while shouting white supremacist crap, makes me more outraged than an assassin going to a heavily guarded political rally and attempt murder.
In both cases it's murder or attempted murder, but in the first case it's also cowardice: too chickenshit to attack the government leaders who bear much more responsibility for policies, so attack an easy *opposition party* target instead. That's terrorism.