Algorithms Assorted Extremist Use of Online Spaces. Testimony of Heather J. Williams and Alexandra T. Evans … (RAND) 28 April 2022 “This is not to say that exposure to a virtual extremist community drives one to offline violence. Social media is…
Assorted Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. April 2022 (I/II – Easter Edition) | Policyinstitute.net 17 April 2022 The 50 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech posted by Thorsten Koch,…
Policies Society What Free Speech Restrictions Would Citizens Like to Impose? (osf.io) 03 April 2022 Citizens are more willing to restrict statements on the sensitive issues of economic stability, epidemics, and national security or offensive…
Algorithms Assorted Retweet communities reveal the main sources of hate speech (PLoS One) 03 April 2022 Hate speech is dominated by offensive tweets, related to political and ideological issues. The share of unacceptable tweets is moderately…
Assorted Regulating content won’t make the internet safer. We have to change the business models (The Conversation) 03 April 2022 Competition law must also be employed to curb risky business practices of dominant operators in order to prevent harm. The…
Society People’s understanding of the concept of misinformation (Journal of Risk Research) 03 April 2022 Relative to other sources (e.g. media, other people), experts (48.38%) and scientific evidence (60.20%) were the most common sources by…
Algorithms An Inter and Intra Transformer for Hate Speech Detection (IEEE) 03 April 2022 In recent years, successful hate speech detection models have been developed, such as using CNN, LSTM, but they lack a…
Algorithms L3Cube-MahaHate: A Tweet-based Marathi Hate Speech Detection Dataset and BERT models (arXiv) 03 April 2022 The dataset is curated from Twitter, annotated manually. Our dataset consists of over 25000 distinct tweets labeled into four major…
Assorted Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. March 2022 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 31 March 2022 The 40 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech posted by Thorsten Koch,…
Algorithms Large-Scale Hate Speech Detection with Cross-Domain Transfer (arXiv) 16 March 2022 “In this study, we construct large-scale tweet datasets for hate speech detection in English and a low-resource language, Turkish, consisting…
Legal Policies Regulating online harms (House of Commons Library, UK) 16 March 2022 “Harmful online content and activity can include cyberbullying, racism, misogynistic abuse, pornography, and material promoting violence and selfharm. Social media…
Legal Policies Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 (Oireachtas Library & Research Service, Ireland) 16 March 2022 “The Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 proposes to establish a Media Commission in place of the Broadcasting Authority…