Racism on Yahoo
Please read the comments on the article belowfrom “unwashed your brain” for a taste of anti-Jewish hate speech being published by Yahoo.
Warnings of fallout after US freezes funding for Palestinian refugees
https://www.yahoo.com/newsroom/vibes/donald-trump/v-88cfc604-82db-3595-984d-76ff5706bcff_c-7df40716-b5a2-31b3-8f0c-db0cabaf66ce_a-7df40716-b5a2-31b3-8f0c-db0cabaf66ce?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail&.tsrc=newsroom
What is Yahoo/Verizon going to do PROACTIVELY to end their publication of these racist posts?
The internet and social media like YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, etc., has been the driving force behind the explosion of racism and hate over the recent decades. There was a time when cowardly, anonymous racist tirades could only reach a few with pamphlets. No more, now the hate mongers can reach millions. No editor filters out the lies of these anonymous cowards; the impressionable and uninformed readers become new recruits to the army of hatred. The companies that publish these vile diatribes claim they have no responsibility, they become billionaires while the world posts itself on their sites into the gutter of bigotry. Verizon/Yahoo must take the lead in breaking this cycle of destructiveness.
Yahoo/Verizon needs to invest in AI that immediately reads posts and deletes those that violates Yahoo’s own standards. I have been advised by the Yahoo Concierge Team you have no way to proactively prevent this post; this is merely admitting that the company has not seen fit to taking obvious and technically feasible steps to enforce its own standards and honor its social responsibility.
As a Verizon shareholder the current situation is unacceptable to me as it ought to be to Verizon management and its Board of Directors. I am sure Verizon’s board would not wish to see this becoming a topic on “20/20 “” or “60 Minutes” or the subject of a shareholders initiative at the next annual shareholders meeting. If it isn’t addressed it will
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tina morris
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I clicked through, at least the top comments are not (currently) racist, but I agree that whenever I see an article that has any racial element, I cringe at whatever is in the comment pop up box that keeps appearing at the bottom of my screen. Two of the three comments it shows are always racist and horrible. They need to do a much more efficient job of screening hate speech. The comment forums are just a cesspool on here.