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Hate speech regularly, if not inevitably, precedes and accompanies ethnic conflicts, and particularly genocidal violence. Without such incitement to hatred and the exacerbation of xenophobic, anti-…
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The USA and European countries have developed radically different approaches to regulating racist hate speech over the past 50 years. This divergence is largely a function of rulings by the […]
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With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender in two earlier bestselling Routledge books, Gender Trouble, and Bodies That Matter, philosopher Judith Butler turns her attention […]
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Two research objectives underlay the present research. First, we tested how frustrated psychological needs caused by the refugee-influx influence the endorsement and selection of refugee-relevant information. Second, we tested how […]
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My vox-pol fellowship in 2015–2016 coincided with two important developments in Europe. The first was the eruption of social media hate speech that followed hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving […]
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Aside from the election of Donald Trump, the most surprising political development of the past few years has been the rapid rise of the Alt-Right–the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement […]
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A new guide and visual gallery from the Inside the Influence Industry project, looking at the global business of using data to sway voters.
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This paper offers reflections and observations on the state of research related to harmful speech online. The perspectives outlined here are grounded in the lessons from a year of exploratory […]
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In addition to hosting user-generated video content, YouTube provides recommendation services, where sets of related and recommended videos are presented to users, based on factors such as co-visitation count and […]