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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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