Assorted Society Hate speech ‘on notice’ as UN chief launches new plan to ‘identify, prevent and confront’ growing scourge (United Nations) 15 March 2023 “The UN Strategy and Plan of Action provides a system-wide programme with the overriding objective of identifying, preventing and confronting…
Assorted Policies Society FIA RELEASES WHITE PAPER AS A KEY STEP IN THE MISSION TO DRIVE OUT ONLINE TOXICITY (FIA) 15 March 2023 “The White Paper reveals that across the European Union (EU) some 80% of people surveyed had encountered some form of…
Legal Policies PARLIAMENTARY TOOLKIT ON HATE SPEECH (Parliamentary Assembly & Council of Europe) 15 March 2023 “ECRI calls for speedy reactions by public figures to hate speech; promotion of self-regulation of media; raising awareness of the…
Policies Society B.C. commissioner urges creative ways to fight hate as reports double during pandemic (Canadian Press via EverythingGP) 15 March 2023 “Kasari Govender released a nearly 500-page report Tuesday detailing the results of her office’s public inquiry into hate incidents during…
Algorithms Combating Hate Speech Online With AI (IEEE) 15 March 2023 “Anwar and his colleagues compared BiCapsHate to these other models, finding that theirs outperformed the other models significantly. BiCapsHate achieved…
Algorithms Explaining Hate Speech Classification with Model-Agnostic Methods (Lecture Notes in Informatics) 15 March 2023 “The bidirectional transformer model BERT has been used for prediction because of its state-of-the-art efficiency over other Machine Learning(ML) models.…
Policies Society The Internet, Internet Intermediaries and Hate Speech – Freedom of Expression in Decline? (The Future of Free Speech) 15 March 2023 “This paper demonstrates how seeking to tackle all types of hate speech through enhanced pressures on intermediaries to remove content…
Legal Countering online hate speech through legislative measures: The Ethiopian approach from a comparative perspective (The Communication Review) 15 March 2023 “Using comparative legal research methodology, this research article seeks to offer an overview of the legislative responses to online hate…
Algorithms Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder (arXiv) 15 March 2023 “Our analysis are using two well-known Transformer-based models, BERT and mBERT, where the later is used to address abusive content…
Policies Society Is hate speech detection the solution the world wants? (PNAS) 15 March 2023 “We find that, where hate speech mitigation is concerned, there is a profound disconnect between the computer science research community…
Assorted Legal Policies Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. February 2023 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 28 February 2023 The 75 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech by Thorsten Koch, MA,…
Assorted Hate Speech. Linguistic Perspectives (De Gruyter Mouton) 28 February 2023 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110672619/html “The book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the…