Algorithms Hyderabadi Pearls at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation : HALT : Hate Speech Alleviation using Large Language Models and Transformers (ACL Anthology) 30 January 2025 The potential of employing fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce counter-narratives (CNs) in order to counter hate speech (HS)…
Algorithms Evaluating Simple Debiasing Techniques in RoBERTa-based Hate Speech Detection Models (arXiv) 30 January 2025 The annotation bias in the underlying hate speech datasets used to train these models is known to cause bias against…
Algorithms Echoes of Discord: Forecasting Hater Reactions to Counterspeech (arXiv) 30 January 2025 Hate speech propagates negativity and divisiveness online, undermining inclusivity. It is acknowledged that counterspeech can help lessen these negative effects.…
Algorithms Society Unveiling Hate Speech Dynamics: An Examination of Discourse Targeting the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) (Social Inclusion) 30 January 2025 This article examines hate speech on the social media platform X directed at the Spanish meteorological governmental organization, AEMET. We…
Legal Policies The Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online + (European Commission) 21 January 2025 Preventing and addressing the spread of unlawful hate speech online is the goal of the DSA’s Code of Conduct on…
Policies Society Facebook, X, YouTube to do more against online hate speech, EU says (Reuters) 21 January 2025 In an amended code of conduct that will now be included into EU tech regulations, the European Commission said on…
Policies Society Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites ‘recent elections’ as a catalyst (AP) 21 January 2025 Advocates for vulnerable groups are concerned about the changes, claiming that Meta’s choice to reduce content monitoring might have negative…
Society Study finds three quarters of UK academics have experienced online hate over published research (Committee for Academic Freedom) 21 January 2025 An astounding 74% of UK academics report experiencing online harassment as a result of their published research, according to a…
Society How Entertainment Journalists Manage Online Hate and Harassment (usenix) 21 January 2025 Entertainment journalists—who cover video games, TV, movies, etc.—also face serious digital safety risks in the form of ongoing harassment, despite…
Society Exposure to hate in online and traditional media: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of this exposure on individuals and communities (Campbell Systematic Reviews) 21 January 2025 This thorough research demonstrates that people and communities suffer greatly when exposed to hate speech in both traditional and internet…
Algorithms Ensuring safety in digital spaces: Detecting code-mixed hate speech in social media posts (Data & Knowledge Engineering) 21 January 2025 With a performance of 75% accuracy, the results show that the transliteration strategy outperforms both raw and translated data by…
Algorithms The Dialects Gap: A Multi-Task Learning Approach for Enhancing Hate Speech Detection in Arabic Dialects (SSRN) 21 January 2025 The suggested approach uses shared representation knowledge across five Arabic dialects—Egyptian, Saudi, Levant, Gulf, and Algerian—and is intended to detect…