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Is the Press Finally Learning How to Cover White Supremacy?

In the aftermath of Christchurch, the media were aware of what they were doing as they did it. And some, against all impulses, resisted amplifying the killer’s twisted ideology or even mentioning his name. For Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, this was a real improvement from years of sloppy and harmful reporting: seeking quotes from white supremacists after a violent events, linking to so-called manifestos, and teaching readers where to find more hateful ideas.

However, for all the growth journalists have demonstrated, the other, bigger distributors of information — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google — are still light years away from developing an enforceable code of ethics for dealing with hate groups. In this segment, Bob and Joan discuss why she believes that stymieing the spread of hate online is possible. 

This segment is from our March 22nd, 2019 program, Hating In Plain Sight.

 


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