In France’s first round of presidential elections, more than seven million voters chose Marine Le Pen, who promises to suspend all immigration and ban Muslim headscarves. Skillful appeals to a fear of foreigners and a loathing of elites are widespread across Europe, with fierce anti-Islam sentiment as a common denominator for the continent’s far-right parties.
Read MoreWhen Sweden suffered a terrorist attack, Prime Minister Lofven responded by affirming civic values. Other world leaders should do the same.
Read MoreDangerous Speech, like hate speech or pornography, is difficult to define in a precise or objective way – which makes it difficult to train a machine to classify it reliably. A new Google-related research effort has made interesting progress by asking people to classify millions of online comments.
Read MoreUpdate 2/27/2017: Another incident of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery occurred yesterday, this time at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. Clean-up…
Read MoreProfessor Cherian George describes a malevolent political strategy that consists of giving offense and taking offense. Like Dangerous Speech, hate spin is often based on misinformation and can promote discrimination and violence against vulnerable groups.
Read MoreSince U.S. government leaders are failing to denounce xenophobia – and even promoting it by depicting foreigners as dangerous threats…
Read MoreNow that Donald Trump is president, he has an even greater responsibility to denounce hateful speech and violence: some of…
Read MoreAn American neo-Nazi is planning an armed march against “a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths” – Jews – through Whitefish, Montana in two weeks. It is the latest step in an antisemitic campaign led by Andrew Anglin, founder of the website The Daily Stormer. Anglin chose Whitefish because the family of another far-right activist, Richard Spencer, has been under pressure from local residents including some Jews.
Read MoreAt the Dangerous Speech Project, we are often asked whether President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks constitute Dangerous Speech. Since the United…
Read MoreGeert Wilders, a ring-wing and anti-Islam Dutch politician, was found guilty of incitement to discrimination against Moroccans last week, but his xenophobic Party for Freedom (PVV) has been gaining so much support that it is the strongest party in the multi-party country, according to a new poll by the Maurice de Hond Institute. The PVV is likely to win many more seats in the Dutch parliament in elections on March 15.
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