Legal Policies New Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report: Online Hate & Real World Violence Are Inextricably Linked (Human Rights Campaign) 21 December 2022 “Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation – the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer…
Assorted Policies Hate Speech and Counter Speech Detection: Conversational Context Does Matter (ACL Anthology) 21 December 2022 “This paper investigates the role of context in the annotation and detection of online hate and counter speech, where context…
Algorithms Legal Policies EU rights watchdog warns of bias in AI-based detection of crime, hate-speech (Reuters) 21 December 2022 “In a report that based its findings on a 2021 study, the Vienna-based EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said…
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…
Policies The effect of content moderation on online and offline hate (VoxEU CEPR) 28 November 2022 “Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter has reignited discussions about which content, if any, social media platforms should moderate. Empirical…
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’,…
Policies Society A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy (nature human behaviour) 28 November 2022 “We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence (N = 496 articles) on the link between digital media use and…
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…
Policies Society Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech (ADI/MSI-DIS) Background document (Council of Europe) 22 November 2022 “To prepare a draft recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to member States on a comprehensive approach to addressing hate…
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,…
Assorted Policies Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond: “We can’t trust Big Tech to abide by its own rules” (APC) 17 October 2022 “Technology companies now do offer channels for users to flag hate speech. However, Martins of APC noted that these remain…
Policies Society Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond (APC) 10 October 2022 “At that time, radio was still a powerful tool of mass communication and played a significant role in the dissemination…