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 05,2024
This report offers a firsthand account of the local context and explores the hallmarks of dangerous speech that were identified in Bangladesh, offering examples of each hallmark with analysis. It also describes cases in which dangerous speakers continue to spread their messages with impunity, and one case in which a target of dangerous speech successfully pushed back.
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December 20,2023
To better understand rhetoric that justifies and even inspires violence, a team of Bangladeshi
professors and students collected and analyzed 124 examples of dangerous speech that
circulated in their country in 2021.
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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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