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How Dangerous Speech Exacerbates Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria

July 29,2020

While online speech is rarely implicated in initial violent incidents, social media platforms increasingly feature dangerous speech afterward – which increases the risk of additional violence.

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New Reports Highlight Extensive Problems in Content Moderation

July 10,2020

While the last few weeks have featured internet companies instituting new policies, promising to make small changes, and taking new…

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As Twitter Takes on Trump, It Must Explain Itself

May 29,2020

For the first time, Twitter marked one of Donald Trump’s posts as a rules violation. It was the right decision– but Twitter should provide more detail about why posts violate its rules.

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Dangerous speech in an ‘infodemic’

May 06,2020

We’re seeing a worrisome pattern—that of authority figures capitalizing on the public’s need for guidance and security to spread disinformation, including dangerous speech.

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Platforms Should Preserve Data about Content Censored During COVID-19

April 22,2020

The Dangerous Speech Project is one of 75 organizations and individuals voicing concerns about how social media and content-sharing platforms…

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COVID-19 dangerous speech breeds violence and helps the disease spread

March 20,2020

Intentionally associating COVID-19 with Asian communities encourages cruel and ignorant stigmatizing, and distracts people from reliable information about the disease.

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The difference between hate speech and the dangerous kind

March 19,2020

Author Salil Tripathi examines the distinction between hate speech and dangerous speech in the context of elections in Delhi, India.

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Introducing the 2019-2020 Global Research Initiative Fellows

October 07,2019

These inaugural Fellows will be the first in a worldwide network of researchers in countries where Dangerous Speech abounds. 

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Can criticizing the government be Dangerous Speech?

September 10,2019

When people describe government policy as evil or even criminal, and then others attack facilities where the policy is carried out, is that Dangerous Speech? 

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When Shootings Become Dangerous Speech

August 09,2019

Individuals who carry out attacks such as the one in El Paso are not only audience members who have heard Dangerous Speech and have been convinced to commit violence. They are also speakers themselves. Their words (through manifestos and social media posts) and their actions (the shootings) are performances designed, at least in part, to move others to commit similar atrocities in the future.

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