Legal Policies The Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online + (European Commission) 21 January 2025 Preventing and addressing the spread of unlawful hate speech online is the goal of the DSA’s Code of Conduct on…
Policies Society Facebook, X, YouTube to do more against online hate speech, EU says (Reuters) 21 January 2025 In an amended code of conduct that will now be included into EU tech regulations, the European Commission said on…
Policies Society Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites ‘recent elections’ as a catalyst (AP) 21 January 2025 Advocates for vulnerable groups are concerned about the changes, claiming that Meta’s choice to reduce content monitoring might have negative…
Society Study finds three quarters of UK academics have experienced online hate over published research (Committee for Academic Freedom) 21 January 2025 An astounding 74% of UK academics report experiencing online harassment as a result of their published research, according to a…
Society How Entertainment Journalists Manage Online Hate and Harassment (usenix) 21 January 2025 Entertainment journalists—who cover video games, TV, movies, etc.—also face serious digital safety risks in the form of ongoing harassment, despite…
Society Exposure to hate in online and traditional media: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of this exposure on individuals and communities (Campbell Systematic Reviews) 21 January 2025 This thorough research demonstrates that people and communities suffer greatly when exposed to hate speech in both traditional and internet…
Algorithms Ensuring safety in digital spaces: Detecting code-mixed hate speech in social media posts (Data & Knowledge Engineering) 21 January 2025 With a performance of 75% accuracy, the results show that the transliteration strategy outperforms both raw and translated data by…
Algorithms The Dialects Gap: A Multi-Task Learning Approach for Enhancing Hate Speech Detection in Arabic Dialects (SSRN) 21 January 2025 The suggested approach uses shared representation knowledge across five Arabic dialects—Egyptian, Saudi, Levant, Gulf, and Algerian—and is intended to detect…
Policies Society Online misogyny: manifestations and dynamics towards politically active women (Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation) 21 January 2025 Online platforms have to provide a venue for the active engagement and promotion of female politicians. However, the truth is…
Society Video… Young People Against Online Hate & What is Digital Humanism? (University of Vienna) 21 January 2025 The goal of the lecture series “Foundations and Methods of Digital Humanism” is to introduce the new movement of “Digital…
Algorithms Policies A survey of textual cyber abuse detection using cutting-edge language models and large language models (arXiv) 21 January 2025 The study offers a thorough examination of the many types of abuse that are common on social media, with an…
Assorted Violence, Hate Speech, and Discrimination in Video Games: A Systematic Review (Social Inclusion) 21 January 2025 The systematic study examines the connections between video games, hate speech, violence, and discrimination. A thorough search of the Scopus…