“Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the law was associated with a statistically significant reduction in toxic posts by far-right social media users. Further, we show that the NetzDG reduced anti-refugee hate crimes in towns with more far-right Facebook users. Together, these findings suggest that online content moderation can curb online hate speech and offline violence.”https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4230296Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading... Post navigation Improving Generalization of Hate Speech Detection Systems to Novel Target Groups via Domain Adaptation (ACL Anthology) Quantifying How Hateful Communities Radicalize Online Users (arXiv)