Legal Policies Society Freedom of speech is not freedom to spread racial hatred on social media: UN experts (United Nations Human Rights) 22 January 2023 https://www.ohchr.org/en/taxonomy/term/765 “Allowing and tolerating the incitement to hatred and expression or advocacy of hatred against people of African descent and…
Algorithms Society Using science and AI to track patterns of digital hate (Telekom) 28 November 2022 “How can data help against hate and disinformation on the net? And why is it important to join forces with…
Legal Society The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike (European Journal of Social Psychology) 28 November 2022 “We investigated whether any differences in the psychological conceptualization of hate and dislike were simply a matter of degree of…
Policies Society A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy (nature human behaviour) 28 November 2022 “We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence (N = 496 articles) on the link between digital media use and…
Assorted Society Extreme Temperature Shifts Trigger an Increase in Hate Speech (Medscape) 28 November 2022 “Extreme hot or cold temperatures shifts tend to trigger a rise in hate speech on social media, according to researchers…
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…
Algorithms Society Hate Speech and Counter Speech Detection: Conversational Context Does Matter (ACL Anthology) 14 November 2022 “This paper investigates the role of context in the annotation and detection of online hate and counter speech, where context…
Algorithms Society The Role of Context in Detecting the Target of Hate Speech (ACL Anthology) 14 November 2022 “In this paper, we focus on detecting the target of hate speech in Dutch social media: whether a hateful Facebook…
Assorted Society Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes (Oxford Academic) 14 November 2022 “The results confirm that the expression of prejudice is context dependent and that preserving a ‘norm environment’ requires sustained reinforcement…
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 Society Combating Hate Speech and Disinformation Against Social Polarization and How to be a Fact-Checking Influencer (Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom) 25 October 2022 “Mahadevan stated that in the MediaWise, they aim to increase people’s awareness so they can fact-check the news examples they…
Algorithms Society Improving Generalization of Hate Speech Detection Systems to Novel Target Groups via Domain Adaptation (ACL Anthology) 19 October 2022 “In this paper, we investigate the generalization capabilities of deep learning models to different target groups of hate speech under…