Extreme Speech Online
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Complex challenge of extreme speech online can only be tackled if multiple stakeholders collaborate
We need evidence based policy and action, content moderation practices, alternative narratives and counter speech without compromising freedom of expression.
Elonnai Hickok & Sahana Udupa
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A taxonomy for misinformation: Why it is important to distinguish between its varied forms
There is an urgent need to distinguish between the varied forms of so-called ‘fake news’ as they would require different regulatory approaches.
Amber Sinha
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Can artificial intelligence algorithms help regulate extreme speech?
Algorithmic interventions being made to tackle extreme speech online need to be made the focus of critical research.
Matti Pohjonen
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To protect free speech while choking extreme speech, government policymaking must be collaborative
Policymaking processes should emphasise transparency and consultation, and the resulting policies should be underpinned by flexibility and collaboration.
Nikki Bourassa
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Civil society, industry and government must join hands to protect free speech, curb extreme speech
Our next challenge is to find the mix of tools and approaches that strengthen public discourse that work in the digital age.
Robert Faris
Video
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Debate over regulating right-wing extreme speech online must shift to harms such speech can cause
Prioritising free speech above the harms that extreme speech may cause has dominated the moderation strategies of social media platforms.
Bharath Ganesh
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Any regulation of online speech in India must safeguard the rights to free speech and privacy
The law should also enable a quick take-down of content determined as illegal by the judiciary or appropriate government agencies.
SFLC.in
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To address extreme online content, especially of the political kind, an ecosystem approach is needed
The ecosystem around the creation of content, including that related to elections, as well as its dissemination, promotion and consumption is complex.
Elonnai Hickok
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Fact-checking vigilantes in India are a bulwark against the move to a ‘post-truth’ world
The ecosystem of fact checking in India cuts across digital, television, and print media and even crosses over into the corporate domain.
Sangeet Kumar
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Extreme speech: A people-centric approach will help hold governments, social media firms accountable
Globally, content moderation around extreme speech has been difficult partly because of its elusive formats, inability to account for context, coded language.
Sahana Udupa
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Strategies to tackle extreme speech on WhatsApp must bring together socio-political, digital worlds
Research has shown that the circulation of digital content characterised as ‘extreme speech’ informs everyday public opinion.
Lipika Kamra & Philippa Williams
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