Millions of supporters of Donald Trump have flocked to the far-right social media platform Parler, where hate speech thrives.
Articles on Hate speech
Displaying 81 - 100 of 156 articles
Twitter pile-ons, online celebrity bashing, or knee-jerk reactions are part of an increasingly toxic environment children are being exposed to that risks normalising hate.
The full benefits of digital democracy are being thwarted by digital exclusion that is driven by the high cost of data.
My research shows that when politicians use hate speech, it’s not just empty rhetoric or political theater: Domestic terrorism increases, in the US and in other countries.
When we use ‘race’ we need to be very specific about what we mean. Race is not biology, nor is it class.
Most of Facebook’s revenue comes from the millions of small businesses that advertise on the platform.
If perception is everything in politics, what does it say when a leader poses with a Trump MAGA hat?
A psychologist explains how to reestablish civil political conversation in your own life.
Free speech is too important to leave it to a government regulator to decide what should be banned.
Academic freedom protects free speech, but also conditions it. Knowledge cannot be tested and doesn’t advance if there isn’t also a duty to be well informed and reasoned.
As a branch of government, the courts must naturally be accountable for the exercise of their power. The means of achieving their accountability must be balanced against their necessary independence.
We should celebrate the ‘deplatforming’ of the 8chan message board, linked to the El Paso shootings, as a win for the fight against online hate speech. But its removal does not mean the fight is over.
There are calls to ban the far-right former Breitbart editor from Australia. He’s due to speak at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference.
While the “Christchurch Call” summit has made concrete progress, we need to keep up the pressure on social media companies to become more transparent and accountable.
In the face of digital disruption that threatens the very fabric of democratic culture we must refashion Enlightenment oppositions for new times.
As countries are calling for laws to control extremism online, it is becoming clear that defining the line between hate speech and free speech is a complex challenge.
National regulation of free speech should be by governments, and not corporations, in order to be democratic.
What can social media platforms do after terrorist attacks?
Don’t swear off social media. Use it to your advantage.
A new theory of language suggests that people understand words by unconsciously simulating what they describe. Repeated exposure – and the simulation that comes with it – makes it easier to act.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
-
Professor in Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
-
Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
-
Lecturer, Information Technology and the Law, Daystar University
-
Associate professor, Uppsala University
-
Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
-
Associate Professor in Political and Legal Theory, University of East Anglia
-
Associate Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
-
Deputy Executive Dean and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland
-
Associate Professor, Educational Technology, Université Laval
-
Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
-
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
Professor, UCL