This guide offers recommendations for those who wish to engage in counterspeech online, based on the findings of our two year study of hateful speech and counterspeech on Twitter.
Read MoreThis report from our two year study of hateful speech and counterspeech on Twitter reviews existing literature on counterspeech, examines cases of counterspeech through the vector in which it was delivered, and develops a taxonomy of counterspeech strategies.
Read MoreOnline social platforms are beset with hateful speech – content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people….
Read MoreThere is considerable agreement amongst scholars and international actors that ideologies and speech play a critical role in the path…
Read MoreThis comment examines the tension between freedom of expression and freedom of religion by embedding the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a wider, century-old European tradition of publications mocking religion, including Christianity. It describes, and draws lessons from, the 19th century blasphemy case against the British Freethinker newspaper, whose “technique of offense” was similar to that of Charlie Hebdo. Finally, the comment tackles the problem of violent response to text or images that mock religion, pointing out that malicious intermediaries often carry such messages between social groups or across national borders—greatly escalating the risk of violence.
Read MoreSusan Benesch reviews efforts to counter hateful speech online in the Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s report Internet Monitor…
Read MoreState of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2014, Minority Rights Group International, 2014.
Read MoreUS Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 11, 2014
Read MoreWith Michael Abramowitz. Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2013.
Read MoreThe Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication conducted an evaluation of the Vioja Mahakamani media intervention, a partnership between the Dangerous Speech Project and Media Focus on Africa.
Read More“It’s time for Internet giants to explain when censorship is and isn’t OK.” With Rebecca MacKinnon.
Read MoreDangerous Speech project director Susan Benesch provides an overview of the distinction between hate speech and dangerous speech. April 20, 2012.
Read MorePeople are increasingly privy to communication that they would not have heard (or read or seen) in the past. This…
Read MoreThis book chapter describes existing case law on incitement to genocide, the challenges with identifying the cause of genocide, and offers the Dangerous Speech framework as an alternative approach.
Read MoreInflammatory speech – a common feature of elections – provides opportunities for preventing ethnic violence in the context of elections. However, this must be done carefully in order to preserve freedom of expression.
Read MoreThis paper analyzes incitement in international criminal law as well as in international human rights law, building an interpretive bridge between the two bodies of law; proposes a method for distinguishing incitement from other forms of hate speech; summarizes the jurisprudence on incitement to genocide; and describes a methodology for identifying speech that has a reasonable possibility of successfully inciting genocide, suggesting ways in which this framework may be adapted for distinguishing other forms of incitement.
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