Research team sets recommendations for removing online hate groups
An interdisciplinary research team released four policy suggestions for how social media companies can...
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The physics professor who says online extremists act like curdled milk
The language we use to discuss violent extremism is rife with metaphors from the natural world. As we...
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...
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...
How hatred spreads on the Internet
This article was translated from German
The so-called social media are often quite...
‘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...
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...
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...
Online hate thrives globally through interconnected clusters, study shows
Researchers at George Washington University (GW) have developed a mapping model that is the...
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...