Countering Hate Conference Report (2025) (Northern Justice Watch)
Experts, decision-makers, and impacted groups convened for two days to discuss the growing levels of hatred, discrimination, and division in…
Countering disinformation, misinformation and hate speech to promote and protect freedom of expression and access to information (UNESCO)
While preserving the right to free speech and information access, UNESCO is acting decisively to combat the escalating issues of…
Counterspeech for Mitigating the Influence of Media Bias: Comparing Human and LLM-Generated Responses (arXiv)
In addition to escalating societal divisiveness, biased news is frequently exacerbated by hurtful reader comments that propagate false narratives. This…
Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study (arXiv)
Social networks continue to have trouble identifying indirect hate speech, such as irony, sarcasm, and insinuation. The current study examines…
Misogynistic Extremism: How Online Hate Is Fueling Real-World Violence Against Women (Vocal Media)
Once written off as internet poison, misogynistic extremism has grown into a global phenomenon with tangible repercussions. Anti-women language is…
Surrounded by Predators: The Lived Experiences of Online Harassment by Male Public Figures (International Journal of Bullying Prevention)
Public personalities, particularly journalists and politicians, are seriously at risk from online harassment. Although studies have been conducted on gendered…
Roblox, one of the world’s most popular gaming platforms, bans hate speech. Users have found a way to spread it anyway (CBS NEWS)
Even while hate speech is prohibited on Roblox, it is still difficult to control it in games like “Spray Paint!,”…
Online hate speech in sports: an increasingly urgent challenge (Social Football Summit)
With the growth of social media, hate speech online has increased, particularly in football, where players encounter racism, misogyny, and…
Llm-Based Text Plus Emoji Multiclass Hate Speech Language Detection for Resource Constrained Devices (SSRN)
The increase in social media contacts in the current digital era exacerbates security risks like hate speech. Current research frequently…
Two Weeks in Soft Security, Multimedia Edition. Policyinstitute.net, 23 August 2025
VIDEOS: Factors that contribute to conspiratorial beliefs (Cambridge Disinformation Summit):https://lnkd.in/dg2VXmAB Is digital media literacy the answer to our disinformation woes?…
Two Weeks in Soft Security: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation, August 2025 (I/II)
Browse and read from a list of the 290 most popular LinkedIn resources – including 9 videos, 7 audios, and…
Can NLP Tackle Hate Speech in the Real World? Stakeholder-Informed Feedback and Survey on Counterspeech (arXiv)
Responding to hate speech online, or counterspeech, has become a popular and promising NLP intervention. Recent research frequently uses automated…