Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft have recently joined the European Union’s anti-racism efforts to crack down online hate speech in an ‘online code of conduct’ which the four internet giants helped to create. The code will allow the Silicon Valley titans to review requests by government to remove access to hate-filled contents and block comments or remarks that espouse racism, discrimination, and xenophobia.
The Turkish capital of Ankara witnessed an explosion that killed 28 people and injured 61 in what the government referred to as a terror attack carried out by Kurdish separatist rebel group PKK
Madonna feels sad over the recent Paris attacks and talks about the issue in her recent Stockholm concert.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald addressed high school students at Toronto through a webcam from Russia.
