Legal Podcast… Online Hate (Hate Crime on the Two Islands) 14 November 2022 “In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by Chara Bakalis, who is a principle lecturer at Oxford…
Legal Society Homophobic Hate Speech On The Rise In Europe, Says New Report (rferl.org) 14 November 2022 “An advocacy group says that homophobic language and hate speech against transgender people is on the rise among European politicians…
Algorithms Legal The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany’s NetzDG (SSRN) 19 October 2022 “Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the law was associated with a statistically significant reduction in toxic posts by…
Legal Policies Rapid action needed on online hate, say Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan (The Guardian) 17 October 2022 “Ministers need to push through legislative efforts to clamp down on online hate, Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan have argued,…
Legal If you are accused of hate speech, consider taking legal advice from an internet law solicitor (Cohen Davis Solicitors) 17 October 2022 “If you have been threatened and abused online and been a target of hate speech, it can make you feel…
Legal Society Free speech or Free Hate Speech? Analyzing the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Parler (ACL Anthology) 10 October 2022 “In this work we provide the first large scale analysis of hate-speech on Parler. We experiment with an array of…
Legal Society 25+ Online hate crime statistics and facts (comparitech) 10 October 2022 “The rates of hate crime and hate speech are increasing, with incidents taking place offline and online. We reveal the…
Legal Policies Supreme Court slams TV channels for unregulated hate speech (Asianet News, India) 10 October 2022 “In 2017, the Law Commission had submitted a report recommending specific laws. ‘Hate speech has not been defined in any…
Legal Policies Social media platforms must regulate misinformation and hate speech (The Saturday Standard, Kenya) 17 September 2022 There is growing concern that social media platforms threaten democracy, freedom of choice, national cohesion, and other human rights. During…
Assorted Legal Policies Prevention of hate speech crimes: digital versus real-life environment (University of Latvia) 14 August 2022 To answer whether mechanisms for combating the crimes of hate speech in the digital environment are as effective as they…
Legal Policies Hate Crime and Hate Speech in Europe: Comprehensive Analysis of International Law Principles, EU-wide Study and National Assessments (European Commission) 15 July 2022 The report examines the European and international law principles applicable for the prevention and repression of hate crimes, and in…
Algorithms Legal Policies Society TACKLING ONLINE HATE SPEECH THROUGH CONTENT MODERATION (University of Oxford) 15 July 2022 This paper builds on the existing work of United Nations bodies to provide more granular and well-calibrated guidance on the…