Legal Policies Supreme Court slams TV channels for unregulated hate speech (Asianet News, India) 10 October 2022 “In 2017, the Law Commission had submitted a report recommending specific laws. ‘Hate speech has not been defined in any…
Algorithms Policies Society Conscious or Unconscious: The Intention of Hate Speech in Cyberworld—A Conceptual Paper (MDPI) 17 September 2022 Results revealed that most of the previous studies on hate speech focused on the field of computer science but rarely…
Assorted Policies Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment (scite_) 17 September 2022 Despite their growing popularity, there is scant experimental evidence on the effectiveness and design of counterspeech strategies (in the public…
Policies New approaches to combatting online hate speech (Gilbert & Tobin Law) 17 September 2022 On 1 July 2022, the Alan Turing Institute (Institute) launched a new research project seeking to better understand and utilise…
Legal Policies Social media platforms must regulate misinformation and hate speech (The Saturday Standard, Kenya) 17 September 2022 There is growing concern that social media platforms threaten democracy, freedom of choice, national cohesion, and other human rights. During…
Policies Society Responding to Hate Speech: Counterspeech and the University (Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law) 14 August 2022 Drawing on speech act theory from philosophy of language, we argue that a university leader’s silence in these situations whether…
Assorted Legal Policies Prevention of hate speech crimes: digital versus real-life environment (University of Latvia) 14 August 2022 To answer whether mechanisms for combating the crimes of hate speech in the digital environment are as effective as they…
Policies Society Eliminating online hate speech to secure women’s political participation (UN WOMEN) 15 July 2022 In Asia and the Pacific, women experience significant barriers to participating in public and political life. Due to economic, social…
Legal Policies Hate Crime and Hate Speech in Europe: Comprehensive Analysis of International Law Principles, EU-wide Study and National Assessments (European Commission) 15 July 2022 The report examines the European and international law principles applicable for the prevention and repression of hate crimes, and in…
Algorithms Legal Policies Society TACKLING ONLINE HATE SPEECH THROUGH CONTENT MODERATION (University of Oxford) 15 July 2022 This paper builds on the existing work of United Nations bodies to provide more granular and well-calibrated guidance on the…
Policies Society Why we must work with parliaments to tackle online hate speech and gender-based violence (UNDP) 15 July 2022 Recent evidence of violence against women in politics shows that online hate speech and harassment represent both serious and increasing…
Policies Society Future teachers confronting extremism and hate speech (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) 15 July 2022 Hate speech has become a social problem that needs to be addressed urgently. In many cases, these discourses and ideologies…