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…
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…
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…
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 Society Offline events and online hate (PLOS ONE) 28 February 2023 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278511 “While much progress has been made in analyzing online hate speech, no study to date has classified multiple types…
Legal Policies Society Hate Speech: Turning the tide (United Nations) 28 February 2023 https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132617 “Online hate speech might seem like an unstoppable tide, but strategies are being employed by governments, civil society, and…
Assorted Society Qualitative research into the impact of online hate (via Ofcom) 28 February 2023 https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/252740/qual-research-impact-of-online-hate.pdf “The frequency and types of hateful abuse experienced were strongly determined by context, including how often participants used different…
Assorted Society An Analysis of Hate Speech Tweets Against Women from a Socio-cognitive Discourse Perspective (SSRN) 28 February 2023 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4363257 “The research begins by examining the discursive structures that discriminate against women and then examines how cognitive structures shape…
Algorithms Assorted Legal Society Offline and Online Gender-Based Violence: Extremism Risk Assessment Tools and the Rise of the Incel Rebellion (GNET Research) 22 January 2023 “In recent years, there have been increasing instances of online hate and gender-based violence against women. Reports of involuntary celibate…
Algorithms Assorted Policies Society Online harassment in gaming continued to grow in 2022 (Esports GG) 22 January 2023 https://esports.gg/news/gaming/online-harassment-in-gaming-continued-to-grow-in-2022/ “According to a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), rates of harassment, hate, and extremism in online gaming have…
Legal Policies Society Mayors explore ways to combat online hate and extremism (Statescoop) 22 January 2023 “Preventing the spread of disinformation and hate speech online, including on social media, is vital to reduce real-life acts of…