June 06,2024
The Dangerous Speech Project and the India Hate Lab have been studying the spread of hateful, inflammatory rhetoric during this year’s elections in the United States and in India. The Indian election, just completed, has taught us quite a bit about such content, and ways to undermine it. Please join the DSP’s Cathy Buerger and Susan Benesch, India Hate Lab’s Raqib Hameed Naik, and distinguished Indian journalist Parth M.N., to listen and ask questions.
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May 22,2024
“As we remember the Isla Vista victims on the 10-year anniversary of their murders,” writes Alex DiBranco, “it is imperative that we give serious attention to the continued risks of misogynist ideology, speech, and violence.”
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May 20,2024
In pro-Trump forums, when someone “pushes the norm of what is considered acceptable speech” by posting a call to execute judges or other public officials, “and no one questions it, then the norm of what is acceptable may shift,” said Cathy Buerger, who studies inflammatory rhetoric at the nonpartisan Dangerous Speech Project in Washington. Buerger reviewed the violent posts identified by Reuters.
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February 27,2024
“Companies are regulating human expression more than any government does. And more than any government ever has,” Susan Benesch explained.
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February 22,2024
Stefanie Ullmann and Marcus Tomalin of CRASSH are releasing their book, “Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech”, which features collaborative work from Joshua Garland and our Director of Research Cathy Buerger.
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January 03,2024
Director of Research Cathy Buerger and Professor Joshua Garland discuss the importance of research collaborations like their project on AI and counterspeech.
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April 06,2022
This talk explores what we do (and don’t yet) know about how “real-world” violence is inspired online, and important considerations for researchers in identifying, scoping, and studying aspects of this relationship.
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November 03,2021
As long as Facebook employees are the only ones who can monitor Facebook, we will not understand how toxic content thrives on social-media platforms and how best to diminish the human suffering to which it contributes.
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April 19,2021
This guide – updated for 2019 – provides an in-depth exploration of dangerous speech and how to identify it, dangerous speech on the internet, and some promising efforts to reduce the harmful effects of 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 16,2020
Researchers discuss Twitter’s repeated failure to deal with harmful content, including DSP Executive Director Susan Benesch, Dr. J. Nathan Matias of Cornell’s Citizens & Technology Lab, and Rebekah Tromble of George Washington University.
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June 15,2018
Our Data-Driven Decency panel at RightsCon 2018 explored experiments to diminish online hate and harassment. Here are our notes on these efforts, and considerations for future interventions.
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April 09,2018
DSP Executive Director Susan Benesch, J. Nathan Matias of Princeton University, and several other independent researchers launched a collaborative study with Twitter to test whether awareness of the rules affects user behavior.
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