We Counter Hate - The Campaign

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Face book is moving away from public news feeds and into incrypted, private groups. The challenge with this is you can't trace anything that's happening. We counter hate was a we partnered with a creative agency in seattle called possible. And they contacted us, and we we helped them work with a i machine learning. So when somebody post is hateful tweat the a, i would flag it, send it to human to goeurne. 18 % of the time the message was deleted by the author. 30% of the time, the accounts were investigated and suspended by twitter itself.

“You can binge watch an ideology in a weekend,” says Tony McAleer. He should know. A former white supremacist, McAleer was introduced to neo-Nazi ideology through the U.K. punk scene in the 1980s. But after his daughter was born, he embarked on a decades-long journey from hate to compassion. Today’s technology, he says, make violent ideologies infinitely more accessible and appealing to those who long for acceptance. Social media isolates us and can incubate hate in a highly diffuse structure, making it nearly impossible to stop race-based violence without fanning the flames or driving it further underground. McAleer discusses solutions to this dilemma and the positive actions we can take together.