Legal Policies Germany’s battle against online hate speech (DW) 18 February 2022 “Beginning in February, Germany is stepping up its efforts to combat hate speech on the internet, including a central monitor…
Legal Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court provides guidance for assessing claims against hate speech on social media (ReedSmith Technology Law Dispatch) 18 February 2022 “In a recent decision of December 19, 2021, case no. 1 BvR 1073/20 (published with an official press release dated…
Legal Policies Big tech opposes Germany’s enhanced hate speech law (Euractiv) 18 February 2022 “The amendment to Germany’s Network Enforcement Act known as NetzDG on combatting hate speech online comes into force on Tuesday…
Algorithms Going Extreme: Comparative Analysis of Hate Speech in Parler and Gab (arXiv) 18 February 2022 “We experiment with an array of algorithms for hate-speech detection, demonstrating limitations of transfer learning in that domain, given the…
Legal A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF HATE SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Research Key) 18 February 2022 The issue of hate speech has received significant attention from legal scholars and philosophers alike but the vast majority of…
Society To combat online hate speech, organize (Santa Fe Institute) 18 February 2022 “While this study focuses on the specific scenario of hate and counter speech on German Twitter, the findings offer insight…
Legal Twitter loses online hate speech court battle in France (Reuters) 18 February 2022 “Twitter must disclose details on what it does to tackle hate speech online in France, the Paris appeals court ruled…
Society Hate Speech: What It Is and Why It Matters (The Wire, India) 18 February 2022 “‘Hate speech’ does not refer to offensive, or foul-mouthed speech directed at a people. It is speech that can cause…
Algorithms Hate speech in social media: How platforms can do better (PHYS.ORG) 18 February 2022 “In a report from the Anti-Defamation League, Libby Hemphill, an affiliate analysis professor at U-M’s Institute for Social Analysis and…
Assorted Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. February 2022 (I/II) | Policyinstitute.net 16 February 2022 The 60 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech posted by Thorsten Koch,…
Assorted Extremist speech online and in the Finnish news media (Prime Minister’s Office, Helsinki) 17 January 2022 “The study demonstrates that speech that approves of the use of violence and dehumanizes others can be found on public,…
Society SOCIAL MEDIA, CONFLICT, AND PEACEBUILDING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES (Mercy Corps) 17 January 2022 “The line between off-line and online is dynamic and permeable; traditional off-line conflicts such as cattle rustling are discussed online,…