Tag: racism

• Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

  July 3, 2025

  Content warning: This article contains racist and antisemitic imagery, videos, and language.  These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist… more ›

• Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

  April 10, 2021

  Last June, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a big promise to help Black YouTubers. “We’re committed to doing better as a platform to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,”… more ›

• The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret

  March 27, 2021

  Take a good look at a Monopoly board. The most expensive properties, Park Place and Boardwalk, are marked in dark blue. Maybe you’ve drawn a card inviting you to “take… more ›

• The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be

  August 15, 2020

  An editing battle over Kamala Harris’s race is a sign of what’s to come. At 4:14 p.m. Delaware time Tuesday, Joe Biden’s campaign sent out a mass text message announcing… more ›

• Google’s Advertising Platform Is Blocking Articles About Racism

  August 15, 2020

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which the magazine had run in its August 1963 issue and… more ›

• Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

  July 26, 2020

  Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”. Google’s Keywords Planner, which helps advertisers choose which search terms to associate with their… more ›

• Facebook Went to War Against White Supremacist Terror After Christchurch. Will It Work?

  October 6, 2019

  MENLO PARK, California — Facebook had spent nearly three years building out its counterterrorism team, sharpening policies against violent content, and training machines to spot extremist propaganda before it gets… more ›

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

  August 29, 2019

  In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›

• TikTok is fuelling India’s deadly hate speech epidemic

  August 17, 2019

  At 8:00pm on February 22, 2019, 28-year-old Venkataraman walked into a south Indian police station and confessed to strangling his friend Vijay to death with a scarf. But police in… more ›

• Privileged

  April 8, 2019

  When the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for… more ›