Legal Policies Hate speech vs. free speech: the UK laws (The Week) 15 August 2024 English law forbids hate speech. Section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986 (POA) is one of the laws that…
Policies Society Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech (WIRED) 15 August 2024 According to a study, 93 percent of violent remarks directed at female candidates on Instagram were directed at women; this…
Algorithms Legal Policies Society Two Weeks in P/CVE: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Mis-/Disinformation, July 2024 (II/II) 02 August 2024 Browse and read from a list of the 275 most popular LinkedIn resources dealing with soft counter-extremism, countering hate speech,…
Algorithms Assorted Hate Speech in Pixels: Detection of Offensive Memes towards Automatic Moderation (Meta) 30 July 2024 Unlike any other work that we are aware of, the study attempts to automatically detect hate speech using visual information…
Legal Policies Should we hate hate speech regulation? The argument from viewpoint discrimination (Oxford Academic) 30 July 2024 Philosophers argue that we have a strong reason to tolerate hate speech because of our democratic values. They contend that…
Legal Policies Section 230’s Original Intent Offers Touchstone for Online Safety (Bloomberg Law) 30 July 2024 Section 230 encouraged interactive computer services to remove hate speech, fraudulent dating profiles, discriminatory and defamatory remarks, and misinformation. For…
Legal Policies Three Federal Offices are Joining Forces to Combat Hate and Better Support Victims and Survivors (Government of Canada) 30 July 2024 A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by the Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, the Special…
Algorithms Assorted Hate speech detection in the Bengali language: a comprehensive survey (Journal of Big Data) 30 July 2024 There hasn’t been much research done on techniques for identifying HS in languages other than English, like Bengali. The survey…
Society Surge of hate speech against athletes on social media (RTÊ) 21 July 2024 A rise in hate speech directed at athletes on social media has been shown by recent study. Initial findings from…
Algorithms Policies Audio… How good is AI at detecting online hate? (The Alan Turing Institute) 21 July 2024 AI is highly praised for its ability to lessen the workload of human online content reviewers. However, AI’s has both…
Assorted Policies Society Video… Countering Hate Speech & Polarizing Narratives To Foster Democratic Consolidation & Peace In Ghana (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) 21 July 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8YRtOhOi0
Algorithms Society Code-mixing unveiled: Enhancing the hate speech detection in Arabic dialect tweets using machine learning models (PLOS ONE) 21 July 2024 Arabic’s numerous dialects and linguistic subtleties necessitate special attention when it comes to detecting hate speech. A further level of…