Legal Policies EU Code of Conduct against online hate speech: latest evaluation shows slowdown in progress (European Commission) 28 November 2022 “This year’s results unfortunately show a decrease in companies’ notice-and-action results: the number of notifications reviewed by the companies within…
Legal Hate speech regulation on social media: An intractable contemporary challenge (Research Outreach) 28 November 2022 “Catherine O’Regan and Stefan Theil of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University…
Legal Policies Counter-terror strategy to be updated to tackle online hate (PublicTechnology) 28 November 2022 “The UK’s long-standing counter-terrorism strategy is to be reviewed and updated to better tackle threats arising from ‘hateful online ideologies’,…
Legal Society The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike (European Journal of Social Psychology) 28 November 2022 “We investigated whether any differences in the psychological conceptualization of hate and dislike were simply a matter of degree of…
Legal Policies Liberty and Hate Speech: Need to Legislate on Grey Areas (NewsClick) 28 November 2022 “Under the garb of curbing hate speech, countries have clamped down on media ecosystems. Laws with nefarious designs demonstrate the…
Legal Podcast… Frameworks for legislating against hate (Hate Crime on the Two Islands) 14 November 2022 “In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by guest Professor James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law at…
Legal Podcast… Online Hate (Hate Crime on the Two Islands) 14 November 2022 “In this episode, Professor Walters and Professor Schweppe are joined by Chara Bakalis, who is a principle lecturer at Oxford…
Legal Society Homophobic Hate Speech On The Rise In Europe, Says New Report (rferl.org) 14 November 2022 “An advocacy group says that homophobic language and hate speech against transgender people is on the rise among European politicians…
Algorithms Legal The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany’s NetzDG (SSRN) 19 October 2022 “Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the law was associated with a statistically significant reduction in toxic posts by…
Legal Policies Rapid action needed on online hate, say Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan (The Guardian) 17 October 2022 “Ministers need to push through legislative efforts to clamp down on online hate, Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan have argued,…
Legal If you are accused of hate speech, consider taking legal advice from an internet law solicitor (Cohen Davis Solicitors) 17 October 2022 “If you have been threatened and abused online and been a target of hate speech, it can make you feel…
Legal Society Free speech or Free Hate Speech? Analyzing the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Parler (ACL Anthology) 10 October 2022 “In this work we provide the first large scale analysis of hate-speech on Parler. We experiment with an array of…