Legal Policies ICYMI: New Report on Germany’s NetzDG Online Hate Speech Law Shows No Threat of Over-Blocking (Counter Extremism Project) 16 April 2023 On November 22, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) launched a…
Policies Society DON’T FOOL ME! TEENAGERS IDENTIFY ONLINE INFORMATION AND HATE SPEECH RISKS (UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN KOSOVO) 16 April 2023 International Fact-Checking Day is marked every 2 April, the day after April Fool’s Day. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)…
Algorithms Policies What happened to the “Internet for trust”? Report on the UNESCO Conference (AlSur) 16 April 2023 The ‘Internet for Trust’ Conference, organized by UNESCO, addressed the regulation of platforms, an important topic for democracies, lives and…
Assorted Legal Policies Society Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. March 2023 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 25 March 2023 Browse, select, and read from a list of the 70 most popular LinkedIn posts about counter-extremism and countering hate speech…
Assorted Legal Policies Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. March 2023 (I/II) | Policyinstitute.net 16 March 2023 In our review, you will find the 110 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and countering hate…
Assorted Society Hate speech ‘on notice’ as UN chief launches new plan to ‘identify, prevent and confront’ growing scourge (United Nations) 15 March 2023 “The UN Strategy and Plan of Action provides a system-wide programme with the overriding objective of identifying, preventing and confronting…
Assorted Policies Society FIA RELEASES WHITE PAPER AS A KEY STEP IN THE MISSION TO DRIVE OUT ONLINE TOXICITY (FIA) 15 March 2023 “The White Paper reveals that across the European Union (EU) some 80% of people surveyed had encountered some form of…
Legal Policies PARLIAMENTARY TOOLKIT ON HATE SPEECH (Parliamentary Assembly & Council of Europe) 15 March 2023 “ECRI calls for speedy reactions by public figures to hate speech; promotion of self-regulation of media; raising awareness of the…
Policies Society B.C. commissioner urges creative ways to fight hate as reports double during pandemic (Canadian Press via EverythingGP) 15 March 2023 “Kasari Govender released a nearly 500-page report Tuesday detailing the results of her office’s public inquiry into hate incidents during…
Algorithms Combating Hate Speech Online With AI (IEEE) 15 March 2023 “Anwar and his colleagues compared BiCapsHate to these other models, finding that theirs outperformed the other models significantly. BiCapsHate achieved…
Algorithms Explaining Hate Speech Classification with Model-Agnostic Methods (Lecture Notes in Informatics) 15 March 2023 “The bidirectional transformer model BERT has been used for prediction because of its state-of-the-art efficiency over other Machine Learning(ML) models.…
Policies Society The Internet, Internet Intermediaries and Hate Speech – Freedom of Expression in Decline? (The Future of Free Speech) 15 March 2023 “This paper demonstrates how seeking to tackle all types of hate speech through enhanced pressures on intermediaries to remove content…