We’re disappointed that Meta is restoring Trump’s accounts, but its new approach to content by public figures in times of civil unrest is an improvement.
Read MoreIn light of new revelations about the proliferation of violent rhetoric on social media platforms leading up to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, The Markup’s Julia Angwin interviewed DSP Executive Director Susan Benesch about dangerous speech online.
Read MoreIn response to the spread of antisemitism on the internet, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue and B’nai B’rith International, in…
Read MoreThis week Tucker Carlson crossed a new line, deliberately inciting his viewers to harm a specific group of people.
Read MoreWhether they know it or not, contemporary political figures often use versions of dangerous speech that go back centuries, and none is more pervasive or powerful than telling people that someone is threatening their children.
Read MoreDangerous speech targeting Ukrainian refugees in Poland is threatening human rights in an already difficult social and political situation.
Read MorePublished in Barron’s on May 5, 2022 Elon Musk’s sudden deal to buy Twitter has his fans elated, and his detractors…
Read MoreWe seek the best ways to blunt the power of dangerous speech, online and offline. Musk taking over Twitter doesn’t look like one of them, to say the least.
Read More[VIDEO] Susan Benesch and Cathy Buerger discuss our recently released publications, reviewing and evaluating the literature on these two important questions.
Read MoreA close advisor to the prime minister of Ethiopia – the world’s 12th most populous country – used an extreme, textbook example of dangerous speech, calling for the Tigray people to be wiped from the face of the earth and from history.
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