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WASHINGTON – As the world mourns the passing of human rights icon and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Human Rights First memorialized Tutu’s legacy of advocacy around human rights and our work together on the effects of apartheid on South Africa’s children.

WASHINGTON – Using a law originally written to cripple the KKK, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine set a historic precedent yesterday, suing the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over their roles in the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol. 

Ford Philippines unveiled the official specification and pricing of the all-new Ford Explorer which will be sold as the sole Limited variant.

New enterprise uses machine learning to detect extremism across online platforms WASHINGTON – Today, Human Rights First announced a new enterprise, originally conceived in its Innovation Lab as Extremist Explorer, that will help to track online extremism as the threats of domestic terrorism continue to grow.

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Twitter’s recently-announced "Private Information Policy" is being used as a weapon against the Twitter accounts of journalists, anti-racist activists, and researchers into extremism. Yesterday, investigators in Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab and Veterans for American Ideals discovered that white extremist leaders of an American neo-nazi party have compiled a list of 48 such accounts and instructed their followers to “brigade” them with complaints, so th...

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents.

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny a…

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Twitter’s recently-announced "Private Information Policy" is being used as a weapon against the Twitter accounts of journalists, anti-racist activists, and researchers into extremism. Yesterday, investigators in Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab and Veterans for American Ideals discovered that white extremist leaders of an American neo-nazi party have compiled a list of 48 such accounts and instructed their followers to “brigade” them with complaints, so th...

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny a…