by jakeloeffenames | 17 December 2019 | News
While social media has been weaponised before, Facebook News carries the potential to be a weapon with particularly acute capabilities and range. Not only is Facebook amplifying dangerous content posted by others, but its “curation team” is making fundamental...
by jakeloeffenames | 25 November 2019 | News
On 26 June 2019 the Delegation of the European Union to the UN and the Global Centre co-hosted an event entitled “R2P and Hate Speech”. The UN Special Adviser on Responsibility to Protect, Ms. Karen Smith, and Global Centre Executive Director, Dr. Simon Adams,...
by jakeloeffenames | 24 October 2019 | News
In response, Protection Approaches undertook a mapping of civil society organisations active in the prevention of identity-based violence in Europe, finding that there are “very few organisations working to prevent violence in Western European states and beyond the...
by jakeloeffenames | 25 September 2019 | News
They refer to migrants, LGBT populations, and those seen as “the others”, such as minorities, as particularly vulnerable. The thirty experts “call on public officials and politicians, as well as the media, to assume their collective responsibility to promote societies...
by jakeloeffenames | 20 September 2019 | News
Hatebase is the world’s largest multilingual database of online hate speech. The platform works by maintaining an actively updated lexicon of keywords that indicate hate speech. The lexicon applied in different contexts following certain rules to determine...
