On 1 July 2022, the Alan Turing Institute (Institute) launched a new research project seeking to better understand and utilise “counterspeech” to combat online hate speech. The project will aim to use AI computer models to automatically detect and generate counterspeech in English. Taking a somewhat different road to a similar destination, Google-funded research has found promising ways to ‘psychologically inoculate’ readers against misinformation (called prebunking), that could be translated to a hate speech context. https://www.gtlaw.com.au/knowledge/new-approaches-combatting-online-hate-speech Share this: Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like this:Like Loading... Post navigation Social media platforms must regulate misinformation and hate speech (The Saturday Standard, Kenya) Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment (scite_)