Online Hate Speech and the Radical Right in Times of Pandemic: The Italian and English CasesSocial media is considered a particularly conducive arena for hate speech, a form of communication often linked to the radical right. The goal of this study is to offer an empirical contribution that ...
“Throughout the pandemic, Ditch the Label has been at the helm of helping young people navigate a range of unique challenges. Anecdotally, we found that increasing amounts of our service users were reporting online hate speech and trolling, so we had suspected an uplift in cases, however we...
Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about 750 hate speech cases over the last four years. But it was a 2021 case involving a local politician named Andy Grote that captured the country's attention. Grote complained about a tweet, that called him a "pimmel," a German...
But there are limits to the rules, leaving it up to the person affected to pursue cases of insult or libel. In the most serious cases, such as terrorism or murder, network operators will be required to give up users' passwords to the authorities if ordered to by a judge—including if t...
The Dankula case is only the latest example of government anxiety about the alleged dangers of free speech. Earlier in March, we saw theexpulsionof three prominent right-wing activists on the grounds that their presence would not be “conducive to the public good.” Although the cases are not...
and in most cases, speech temporally preceded crime. Although we do not make any claims about causation, we conclude that online inflammatory language could be a leading indicator for detecting potential hate crimes acts and that these models can have practical applications for preventing these crimes...
Platforms from Facebook to Google’s YouTube should tackle online hate speech within 24 hours, once made aware of it, according an aggreement made with the European Commisionn in 2016. The judgment “undermines the long-standing principle that one country does not have the right to impose it...
Legally speaking, it is only speech that lies at the intersection of these three criteria that would qualify as illegal, and thus prosecutable hate speech in this context. Still, there could still be cases of inflammatory, offensive comments or comments characterised by prejudice and intolerance ...
Employees of Crisp Thinking help social platforms monitor everything from hate speech to terrorist content. Image Credit: Crisp ThinkingSocial media has become darker, uglier, and meaner in recent years. It may be wrecking our mental health, destroying our politics, and tearing at the...
20 Best Text-to-Speech Online Software Text-to-speech is a sophisticated voice synthesis tool that reads both written and digital texts aloud. The program is used by almost everyone, including adults and children, as well as professionals and students, and it has many different use cases. Almo...