Assorted Society Hate speech and fake news (Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner) 28 May 2023 In a recent report the Council of Europe concludes that hate speech and fake news aimed at regional and municipal…
Assorted Society The Oneness of God. Archaeology, Tawheed, and Islam 27 May 2023 In 2001, the Buddhas of Bamiyan were destroyed in central Afghanistan, and the world was left in shock. Many strict…
Assorted Society Age and Hate are not Commonly Connected 25 May 2023 Perhaps you know one or more persons of advanced age who complain about life. After all, aches and pains tend…
Policies Society How to talk back (Politics, Philosophy & Economics) 16 April 2023 Negative counterspeech fails because it reinforces the salience of the very ideas or associations that it contests. His solution? Positive…
Policies Society DON’T FOOL ME! TEENAGERS IDENTIFY ONLINE INFORMATION AND HATE SPEECH RISKS (UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN KOSOVO) 16 April 2023 International Fact-Checking Day is marked every 2 April, the day after April Fool’s Day. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)…
Assorted Legal Policies Society Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. March 2023 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 25 March 2023 Browse, select, and read from a list of the 70 most popular LinkedIn posts about counter-extremism and countering hate speech…
Assorted Society Hate speech ‘on notice’ as UN chief launches new plan to ‘identify, prevent and confront’ growing scourge (United Nations) 15 March 2023 “The UN Strategy and Plan of Action provides a system-wide programme with the overriding objective of identifying, preventing and confronting…
Assorted Policies Society FIA RELEASES WHITE PAPER AS A KEY STEP IN THE MISSION TO DRIVE OUT ONLINE TOXICITY (FIA) 15 March 2023 “The White Paper reveals that across the European Union (EU) some 80% of people surveyed had encountered some form of…
Policies Society B.C. commissioner urges creative ways to fight hate as reports double during pandemic (Canadian Press via EverythingGP) 15 March 2023 “Kasari Govender released a nearly 500-page report Tuesday detailing the results of her office’s public inquiry into hate incidents during…
Policies Society The Internet, Internet Intermediaries and Hate Speech – Freedom of Expression in Decline? (The Future of Free Speech) 15 March 2023 “This paper demonstrates how seeking to tackle all types of hate speech through enhanced pressures on intermediaries to remove content…
Policies Society Is hate speech detection the solution the world wants? (PNAS) 15 March 2023 “We find that, where hate speech mitigation is concerned, there is a profound disconnect between the computer science research community…
Assorted Society Offline events and online hate (PLOS ONE) 28 February 2023 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278511 “While much progress has been made in analyzing online hate speech, no study to date has classified multiple types…