Legal Society International Day for Countering Hate Speech (United Nations Population Fund) 17 June 2023 In response to growing xenophobia, racism, intolerance, misogyny, anti-semitism and anti-Muslim hatred, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN…
Assorted Society UN Human Rights Chief: Hate speech has no place in our world (OHCHR) 17 June 2023 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on everyone to work together to build a more…
Policies Society Disrupting hate: The effect of deplatforming hate organizations on their online audience (PNAS) 17 June 2023 Using a differences-in-differences approach, we show that on average the network disruptions reduced the consumption and production of hateful content,…
Assorted Society Role of Informal Social Control in Predicting Racist Hate Speech on Online Platforms: Collective Efficacy and the Theory of Planned Behavior (National Library of Medicine) 17 June 2023 Twenty-six measurement items were designed to measure the four TPB constructs of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and…
Assorted Society Health advisory on social media use in adolescence (American Psychological Association) 28 May 2023 Using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people. Adolescents’ lives online both reflect and impact their…
Assorted Society Who are the haters? A corpus-based demographic analysis of authors of hate speech (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence) 28 May 2023 Our results corroborate previous findings: in all four languages, men produce more hateful comments than women, and people produce more…
Assorted Society Strengthening institutional and media capacities to counter hate speech (UNDP) 28 May 2023 Emphasizing the significance of public discourse, a trainee and a communication trainer, Miodrag Strugar, said that everything always begins with…
Assorted Society Giving voice to young people to fight for hate-free internet (UNICEF) 28 May 2023 The main goal of the initiative is to involve and teach young people how to start this change. Through co-creation…
Assorted Policies Society Identifying Hate Speech and Attribution of Responsibility: An Analysis of Simulated WhatsApp Conversations during the Pandemic (MDPI) 28 May 2023 Method: A cross-sectional observational study was carried out, based on an innovative methodology: simulations of WhatsApp conversations. In addition, the…
Algorithms Society Hate Speech Detection (Papers with Code) 28 May 2023 Hate speech detection is the task of detecting if communication such as text, audio, and so on contains hatred and…
Assorted Society Hate speech and fake news (Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner) 28 May 2023 In a recent report the Council of Europe concludes that hate speech and fake news aimed at regional and municipal…
Assorted Society The Oneness of God. Archaeology, Tawheed, and Islam 27 May 2023 In 2001, the Buddhas of Bamiyan were destroyed in central Afghanistan, and the world was left in shock. Many strict…