Legal Policies Liberty and Hate Speech: Need to Legislate on Grey Areas (NewsClick) 28 November 2022 “Under the garb of curbing hate speech, countries have clamped down on media ecosystems. Laws with nefarious designs demonstrate the…
Policies Society Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech (ADI/MSI-DIS) Background document (Council of Europe) 22 November 2022 “To prepare a draft recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to member States on a comprehensive approach to addressing hate…
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,…
Assorted Policies Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond: “We can’t trust Big Tech to abide by its own rules” (APC) 17 October 2022 “Technology companies now do offer channels for users to flag hate speech. However, Martins of APC noted that these remain…
Policies Society Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond (APC) 10 October 2022 “At that time, radio was still a powerful tool of mass communication and played a significant role in the dissemination…
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…
Algorithms Policies Society Conscious or Unconscious: The Intention of Hate Speech in Cyberworld—A Conceptual Paper (MDPI) 17 September 2022 Results revealed that most of the previous studies on hate speech focused on the field of computer science but rarely…
Assorted Policies Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment (scite_) 17 September 2022 Despite their growing popularity, there is scant experimental evidence on the effectiveness and design of counterspeech strategies (in the public…
Policies New approaches to combatting online hate speech (Gilbert & Tobin Law) 17 September 2022 On 1 July 2022, the Alan Turing Institute (Institute) launched a new research project seeking to better understand and utilise…
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…
Policies Society Responding to Hate Speech: Counterspeech and the University (Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law) 14 August 2022 Drawing on speech act theory from philosophy of language, we argue that a university leader’s silence in these situations whether…
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…