February 12,2024
Susan Benesch and Cathy Buerger for the L.A. Times: Two unrelated facts combined with a lie form a powerful and dangerous piece of misinformation that is spreading virally.
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January 26,2024
Among other steps it ordered, the Court directed Israel to do all it can to prevent and punish incitement to genocide. This would be a vital and dramatic change since the Israeli president, minister of defense and other top leaders have publicly described all two million Gazans as mortal enemies.
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January 17,2024
As the U.S. election approaches, there is a growing possibility of intergroup violence along with an increase in dangerous and hateful speech. How can we best respond as peacebuilders? In this hour-long workshop hosted by Peace Through Action USA, Director of Research Cathy Buerger will discuss one possible response to online hatred – counterspeech.
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January 05,2024
During the campaign for 300 seats to be filled in its national parliament, Bangladesh has seen mass protests, violence including killings, and a notable increase in dangerous speech, which Professor Aynul Islam of Dhaka University and his team have illustrated with examples in this new dataset.
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January 03,2024
Trump‘s recent xenophobic rhetoric is more brazen and explicit. What can be done about it?
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December 22,2023
Dangerous speech flourished in 2023. Director of Research Cathy Buerger offers steps for combatting its spread in the new year.
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November 20,2023
In response to Elon Musk’s recent endorsement of antisemitic dangerous speech, major companies are enacting their own counterspeech strategy: pulling their advertising dollars from X.
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November 16,2023
Trump’s remarks exhibit familiar patterns or “hallmarks” of dangerous speech, including ‘threat to group integrity or purity’ which is rhetoric suggesting that the presence of other people is poisonous and must be removed. With the term “vermin” Trump also, of course, dehumanized his political opponents.
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November 14,2023
Even as it has wiped out people with terrible speed and cruelty, the Hamas-Israel war has also dried up moderate public discourse about Jews, Palestinians, and the war itself, more quickly and widely than any other conflict in our lifetimes.
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October 19,2023
The former president has used expressions in recent speeches that are specifically and unmistakably redolent of Nazi rhetoric.
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