How do hate groups persist on social media platforms? Researchers shed some light.
Social media have enabled a world of interconnectedness. But with this comes opportunities for less virtuous organisations to...
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Try These Four Policies to Dismantle Online Hate Groups
A first-of-its-kind mapping model tracks how hate spread and adapts online—providing what researchers hope is a blueprint for...
How hatred spreads on the Internet
This article was translated from German
The so-called social media are often quite anti-social: Facebook,...
‘Dark pools’ of hate flourish online. Here are four controversial ways to fight them
For moderators of social platforms such as Facebook, trying to quell the sickening churn of online hate culture is like...
Here’s how social-media firms should tackle online hate, according to physics
Policing online hate groups is like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole: moderators remove one neo-Nazi page on Facebook, only...
Mapping on-line hate reveals team work is the only useful countermeasure
The paper was written after analysis using a “first of its kind” mapping technique, according to George Washington University...
Online hate thrives globally through interconnected clusters, study shows
Researchers at George Washington University (GW) have developed a mapping model that is the first of its kind to track how...
Global online ‘hate highways’ are squeezing the web and scientists are trying to stop them
In a report published in Nature, scientists have shown how previous attempts to tackle hate speech groups have often...
Researchers propose a new approach for dismantling online hate networks
How do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms? Until now, companies have generally tried two approaches. One is to ban...
Worse than a virus: they discover how hatred by social networks spreads
This article was translated from Spanish
Hate is not just antipathy and rejection. It is a complex feeling...