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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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In this toolkit, ARTICLE 19 provides a guide to identifying ’hate speech‘ and how to effectively counter it, while protecting the rights to freedom of expression and equality. It responds […]
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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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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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Inflammatory hate speech catalyzes mass killings including genocide, according to scholars, survivors and, notably, some former perpetrators. By teaching people to view other human beings as less than human, and […]
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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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Political instability and violence in Africa are often the products of rumor and misinformation. Biased newspapers and radio programming, for example, are commonplace conduits of politically divisive causes. Against this […]
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Matthew Shephard, Billy Jack Gaither, Columbine, Jonesboro. This laundry list of hate is a frightening reminder that such crimes are a sad fact of life in the world today. In […]
