"It only seems fair to say to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, ‘Your product is defective, you are obliged to fix it,'" the actor said in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League.
Cohen says Facebook, YouTube, Google and Twitter "amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history."
The hilarious foul-mouth comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays a xenophobic, racist, sexist and anti-Semitic journalist in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, now streaming.
Sacha Baron Cohen slammed Facebook and other large social media organizations as "the greatest propaganda machine in history" in a searing speech Thursday night.
"It only seems fair to say to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, ‘Your product is defective, you are obliged to fix it,'" the actor said in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, talks about curtailing hate.
'Borat' doesn't like fake news.
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t joking around when it comes to Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Cohen, speaking Thursday at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” Summit in New York City, skewered Facebook for not doing enough to combat racism and anti-Semitism on its platform.Cohen
In a speech, the actor argued that Facebook would have run ads by Hitler. Here are his remarks in full<br>
Sacha Baron Cohen accepted an international leadership award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York last night and the comedian did not hold back when it came to the role of social media in the world. Cohen, famous for characters like Borat and Ali G, spent the majority of his speech denouncing social media companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter who have built, in his words, the “greatest propaganda machine in history” for spreading bigotry and conspiracy theories.
Sacha Baron Cohen delivered a powerful speech at the ADL's 2019 Never is Now Summit blasting social media for perpetuating misinformation and hate speech.
Sacha Baron Cohen is going after Facebook and more social media for a long list of grievances including spreading conspiracies and fake news.
Sacha Baron Cohen used his speech accepting the ADL's International Leadership Award in New York to call out social media giants.
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In wide-ranging speech, actor accuses tech giants of running the ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’
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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen says he has felt compelled to rip Facebook for its “absurd” handling of Holocaust denial and racist content because, it argues, that doing so threatens democracy.Late last year, Baron Cohen gave a speech at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” Summit in New York City
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The comedian who gave us such controversial hits as “Borat” and “Who Is America?” was in no mood for laughs last week.
Sacha Baron Cohen hailed Twitter's decision to ban Donald Trump. In a Variety cover story, he warned of social media's dangerous potential.
"Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen uses free speech to speak truth to power. Mark Zuckerberg uses it as an excuse to defend the powerful on Facebook.
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Review: ‘The Dictator’
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In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns.
1. There's a scene toward the end of The Dictator when you can see, finally, why Sacha Baron Cohen decided to wrap a whole movie around Admiral General Aladeen, the ruthless, clueless dictator of fictional country Wadiya. Without giving away any plot details, Aladeen is speaking to the United Nations about how good Americans have it, how in his country, "our leaders just wage war on whoever we want, for no reason," and "one percent of the population controls 99
Film Review: 'The Dictator'
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The actor has been barred from attending in the guise of Admiral General Aladeen, the main character in his comedy The Dictator
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You may know Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Ali G, The Spy or The Dictator, but who is the man behind the masks?
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In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns.
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Sacha Baron Cohen's new film The Dictator breaks from his usual style and ends up being one of his funniest films so far.
general chaos Sacha Baron Cohen's new alter ego, Admiral General Aladeen, invited his guests to be pleasured on Thursday evening in London. The occasion? The world bow of Par's "The Dictator."
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Sacha Baron Cohen is eyeing a return to the type of TV that made him a star. Baron Cohen is in talks with Showtime to distribute a new series in which he will star, sources tell Variety. The format is said to be similar to Baron Cohen's "Da Ali G Show," which aired on Channel 4 in the U.K.
Until “The Dictator,” only a certain class of people appreciated Sasha Baron Cohen’s sense of humor — a class that fell between freshmen and juniors. In previous incarnations — as Ali G, Borat and Bruno — Cohen’s humor centered on putting unsuspecting people in awkward situations. It was occasionally funny, but more often just painful to watch.
Sacha Baron Cohen has been doing most of his promotion for his upcoming movie The Dictator not as himself but as Admiral General Aladeen. Maybe it's time to leave the character at home.
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General Aladeen delivers more punches than "Bruno," less bite than "Borat."
Admiral General Aladeen is Sacha Baron Cohen's latest outrageous creation, but how does he rank alongside Borat and Bruno.
Eventually The Dictator feels stuck spinning its wheels, with a character who can't really develop and a story that won't go anywhere surprising. There's enough good material in there to earn some laughs, but so many of them seem compromised or on the verge of something even better
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Trump: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says keeping Peter Thiel on the board is an act of diversity of thought. Here's why he's wrong.
Facebook colonized the internet with its Like button that sees 10 billion views per day around the web. Now it's getting a makeover for mobile alongside the..
One of the reasons the digital world is so exciting -- and so attractive to startups and investors -- is that network effects help companies to grow quickly, until they end up with what amounts to a monopoly in a sector. A particularly powerful...
(AP) -- A New York man's claim that he's entitled to half ownership of Facebook is again before a federal judge.
Facebook promised not to sell stock to cover a nearly $2 billion tax bill and said it will allow employees to cash in their stock weeks ahead of schedule.
Now that Facebook explained how 99 percent of PragerU’s conservative videos were censored, it's clear how dangerous one employee can be. By R. Cort Kirkwood
The Facebook CEO hosted a public Q&A and fielded questions about the Messenger app, his "fashion" choices, and more.
Outside software developers are taking Facebook’s fake news problem into their own hands — and finding some solutions
A dark cloud of scandal continues to grow over the White House.
In his speech before the Anti-Defamation League, Sacha Baron Cohen said hate groups are rising all around the world, and Big Tech is part of the problem.
Facebook introduced a new feature, legacy contacts, which allows users to prepare last wills and testaments for their Timelines
The European Commission will investigate whether Facebook misuses data from advertisers to compete against them.
Facebook beat on both earnings and revenue in Q1, and the stock is up about 5% after hours.
TechRadar's source disagrees, calling a Facebook Nokia purchase "over-the-top."
Facebook will build a new data center just 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
After yet another blatant disregard for privacy or even decency on the part of Facebook, why doesn't Apple just remove all the company's apps? If only to see what happens.
A German court this week found that, for now, Facebook cannot be forced to allow its users to use fake names on the social network.
The main selling point behind the Instant Articles iPhone application feature Facebook announced in May was quicker load times. Did the social network deliver?
Facebook revealed that it is improving the sign-up process for two-factor authentication. To sign up for the security feature, users will not be required to use a phone number.
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Can Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg deliver? Following better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings results from Google and Yahoo, investors have high hopes for Facebook's Q4 results to be announced after 1 p.m. Pacific today. Maybe too high. Facebook's shares have rallied 50% in the last three months, following the No. 1 social network's uninspiring [...]
One of the issues that has been plaguing the performance of Facebook's shares in the public market has been the company's own admission that it has been struggling to monetize the service as effectively on mobile devices as it has on the PC desktops. To own the stock, you have [...]
Facebook is a fabulous company, but I just can’t see how it justifies its current valuation and even at its low the stock was still pricey. There are a lot of other great technology companies that are much better deals.
Facebook is renowned for disseminating clickbait, scams, fraudulent adverts, and malware. Finally the company has made some moves to clean up its act where ICOs and cryptocurrency advertising is co
This one is kinda scary because of how well it works. Face.com’s new Photo Finder application for Facebook helps you automatically discover public photos that you and your friends may have forgotten to tag — and it also lets you track untagged photos of your friends.
The announcement came as Facebook announced a tripling in its quarterly profit to $1.5 billion, with sales up 52 percent.
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The censorship impulse is getting stronger on the left.
F.B.I. guidelines require that any investigation be predicated on criminal intent, not political activity or hate speech.
The climate-fearing, capitalism-loathing Left cannot abide questions or differing opinions Paul Driessen Throughout history despots had effective ways of reducing dissension in the ranks. Inquisitors burned heretics. Nazi’s burned books – before taking far more extreme measures. Soviets employed famines, gulags, salt mines and executions. ChiComs and other tyrants starved, jailed and murdered millions. Today’s…
On Monday, Apple, Facebook, and YouTube all decided, in apparently coordinated fashion, to remove content from Infowars, the dumpster fire conspiracy outlet run by famed nut case Alex Jones. Jones, you’ll recall, is the same fellow who suggested that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a “false flag,” promoted Pizzagate, and likes to rant about […]
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A generational battle at the prominent civil rights organization threatens its core mission.
'Please spare us the thought police!'
The European Council has approved a set of proposals that would require companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to block videos containing hate speech and incitements to terrorism. The...
German prosecutors said on Monday they would not open a formal investigation of Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook managers in connection with a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition.
Gab finds itself cut off from the Internet, at least for the time being.
Critics say hot line could end up chilling free expression.
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It's not just domain registrars and game chat services that are cracking down on neo-Nazis in the wake of the racism-fuelled violence in Charlottesville. Facebo...
Heavy-hitters in the tech industry agree to adhere to the European Commission's hate speech rules and vow to remove infringing postings within 24 hours after notification.
Facebook has failed yet again at managing and removing hate speech. Ijeoma Oluo, a black activist and writer, was on a road trip with her children recently when she decided to make a meal stop at a Cracker Barrel. While at the restaurant, which has been sued numerous times for racially discriminatory practices and has paid millions of dollars to settle such cases, Oluo jokingly tweeted, "At Cracker Barrel 4 the 1st time. Looking at the sea of white folk in cowboy hats & wondering '
America got lost on the way to the 21st century. Many Americans lost pride in being American, and no longer cherish the rigors of the First Amendment, which gives pride of place to freedom of speech.
The worlds wealthiest person wants to create a haven for free speech
Probably yes -- either incitement or solicitation -- if the speaker is calling for attacking just hecklers. Probably no if the speaker is calling for moderate defense against people who are throwing things, who are punching or shoving, or who are shouting down the speaker.
In a society where facts don't seem to matter, teachers have new responsibilities.
Lawyers argue that the harm these conflicts inflict on campuses at home outweigh any negligible effect they might be having on politics overseas.
Around 15,000 counterprotesters marched through the streets of Boston on Saturday to condemn neo-Nazis and white nationalists as right-wing activists...
Flurry of provocative speeches by politicians during campaigning raises questions whether current laws are lax.
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson says it's not enough for tech companies to accept that hate speech is a complicated issue.
A New England college was forced to cancel the class of one professor after a student complained about a post of his on Facebook.
Germany's Justice Minister says he believes Facebook Inc. should be treated like a media company rather than a technology platform
Protecting the rights of a Holocaust denier ultimately protects us all.
Facebook Inc oversight board’s extension of former US President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social ...
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