Assorted Society Online Hate Speech In Australia: The Role of News Media and Pathways for Change (Purpose) 15 October 2023 In this two-part study, we explore the roles that news media institutions play in the spread and escalation of online…
Assorted Society A Toolkit on Using Counterspeech to Tackle Online Hate Speech (the future of free speech) 15 October 2023 The DSP searches for the best responses to harmful content, especially content that increases the risk of intergroup violence, which…
Policies Society Report: A human rights response to online ethnic hate speech in Kenya (alt advisory) 15 October 2023 The research found that despite laudable efforts by local civil society to combat hate speech online, there has been a…
Society Taking Stock of Approaches to Counter Hate Speech in the Western Balkans, September 2023 (EU RAN) 15 October 2023 In the Western Balkans (WBs), hateful narratives are particularly dangerous because of their substantial potential to increase the existing tensions…
Assorted The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter (SSRN) 15 October 2023 Randomly reporting posts for violating the rules against hateful conduct increases the likelihood that Twitter removes them. Reporting does not…
Assorted Policies The Impact of Data Pre-Processing on Hate Speech Detection in a Mix of English and Hindi–English (Code-Mixed) Tweets (MDPI) 15 October 2023 Due to the informal format of tweets with variations in spelling and grammar, hate speech detection is especially challenging in…
Assorted Society Can We Counteract Hate? Effects of Online Hate Speech and Counter Speech on the Perception of Social Groups (Sage) 15 October 2023 We conducted a pre-registered online experiment with a 2 × 3 between-subject design, varying the attacked group (Chinese people/transgender people) and the…
Algorithms Policies What Did You Learn To Hate? A Topic-Oriented Analysis of Generalization in Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology) 15 October 2023 In this paper, we propose, for the first time, a topic-oriented approach to study generalization across popular hate speech datasets.…
Algorithms Assorted Legal Policies Society Free Resources on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech, September 2023 (II/II) 02 October 2023 Browse and read from a list of the 125 most popular LinkedIn posts about counter-extremism and countering hate speech by…
Policies Society Addressing hate speech through education: A guide for policy makers (UNESCO) 23 September 2023 Countering harmful, discriminatory and violent narratives in the form of xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and other types of intolerance,…
Algorithms Pars-HAO: Hate Speech and OffensiveLanguage Detection on Persian Social MediaUsing Ensemble Learning (TechRxiv) 23 September 2023 This articleintroduces a 3-class dataset named Pars-HAO, consisting of 8013 tweets, to fill the gap in existing research. We collected…
Algorithms Policies Lowenstein Clinic Proposes Framework to Moderate Indirect Hate Speech Online (Yale Law School) 23 September 2023 In light of social media contributing to violence in volatile regions, the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at…