Legal Countering online hate speech through legislative measures: The Ethiopian approach from a comparative perspective (The Communication Review) 15 March 2023 “Using comparative legal research methodology, this research article seeks to offer an overview of the legislative responses to online hate…
Algorithms Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder (arXiv) 15 March 2023 “Our analysis are using two well-known Transformer-based models, BERT and mBERT, where the later is used to address abusive 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 Legal Policies Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. February 2023 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 28 February 2023 The 75 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech by Thorsten Koch, MA,…
Assorted Hate Speech. Linguistic Perspectives (De Gruyter Mouton) 28 February 2023 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110672619/html “The book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the…
Legal Policies How Online Speech Is Moderated in the US (Bloomberg via The Washington Post) 28 February 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-online-speech-is-moderated-in-the-us/2023/02/10/58ad6800-a903-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html “Social media platforms have faced enormous scrutiny over which content they silence and which they amplify. Cases before the…
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…
Algorithms Assorted Hate Speech: ‘Lost in Translation’? (Lexology) 28 February 2023 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6a282e62-bb87-484b-9236-6078c5404d45 “A recent study led by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) tested different models of offensive speech…
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 Policies Stepping Forward: Parliaments in the Fight Against Hate Speech (agora-parl) 28 February 2023 https://www.agora-parl.org/resources/library/stepping-forward-parliaments-fight-against-hate-speech “This brief provides an overview of the background, drivers, enablers and the impact of hate speech and identifies strategies…
Algorithms Assorted Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder (arXiv) 28 February 2023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08777.pdf “Our findings demonstrate that emotional knowledge helps to more reliably identify hate speech and offensive language across datasets. Our…