Assorted Policies Countering disinformation, misinformation and hate speech to promote and protect freedom of expression and access to information (UNESCO) 28 August 2025 While preserving the right to free speech and information access, UNESCO is acting decisively to combat the escalating issues of…
Assorted Counterspeech for Mitigating the Influence of Media Bias: Comparing Human and LLM-Generated Responses (arXiv) 28 August 2025 In addition to escalating societal divisiveness, biased news is frequently exacerbated by hurtful reader comments that propagate false narratives. This…
Algorithms Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study (arXiv) 28 August 2025 Social networks continue to have trouble identifying indirect hate speech, such as irony, sarcasm, and insinuation. The current study examines…
Assorted Society Misogynistic Extremism: How Online Hate Is Fueling Real-World Violence Against Women (Vocal Media) 28 August 2025 Once written off as internet poison, misogynistic extremism has grown into a global phenomenon with tangible repercussions. Anti-women language is…
Assorted Surrounded by Predators: The Lived Experiences of Online Harassment by Male Public Figures (International Journal of Bullying Prevention) 28 August 2025 Public personalities, particularly journalists and politicians, are seriously at risk from online harassment. Although studies have been conducted on gendered…
Assorted Society Roblox, one of the world’s most popular gaming platforms, bans hate speech. Users have found a way to spread it anyway (CBS NEWS) 28 August 2025 Even while hate speech is prohibited on Roblox, it is still difficult to control it in games like “Spray Paint!,”…
Policies Society Online hate speech in sports: an increasingly urgent challenge (Social Football Summit) 28 August 2025 With the growth of social media, hate speech online has increased, particularly in football, where players encounter racism, misogyny, and…
Algorithms Assorted Llm-Based Text Plus Emoji Multiclass Hate Speech Language Detection for Resource Constrained Devices (SSRN) 28 August 2025 The increase in social media contacts in the current digital era exacerbates security risks like hate speech. Current research frequently…
Algorithms Policies Society Two Weeks in Soft Security, Multimedia Edition. Policyinstitute.net, 23 August 2025 23 August 2025 VIDEOS: Factors that contribute to conspiratorial beliefs (Cambridge Disinformation Summit):https://lnkd.in/dg2VXmAB Is digital media literacy the answer to our disinformation woes?…
Algorithms Policies Society Two Weeks in Soft Security: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation, August 2025 (I/II) 22 August 2025 Browse and read from a list of the 290 most popular LinkedIn resources – including 9 videos, 7 audios, and…
Algorithms Society Can NLP Tackle Hate Speech in the Real World? Stakeholder-Informed Feedback and Survey on Counterspeech (arXiv) 18 August 2025 Responding to hate speech online, or counterspeech, has become a popular and promising NLP intervention. Recent research frequently uses automated…
Algorithms Policies Thirty years of research into hate speech: topics of interest and their evolution (Scientometrics) 18 August 2025 Social media’s explosive growth has accelerated the dissemination of misinformation and hate speech directed at specific people or groups on…