Policing on-line hate from within a single platform, such as Facebook, can make the spread of hate worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which hate will flourish, is one of the findings the finding in a recent scientific paper in Nature.
Podcast: Tackling Online Hate Speech, And Identifying Early Fossils
Researchers have been modelling how hate groups interact online, and have come up with suggestions to combat this activity
A New Theory Describes How Hate Travels Across Social Media Platforms And Around The World — And One Researcher Compares It To Water Boiling
In a new study mapping how hate travels across the online world, researchers explored how hate groups thrive on social media even when they are banned and offered new solutions to dismantle them.
‘Hate Is In The Ether’: Research Finds Hate Is Resilient On The Internet
Even as social networks have vowed to do more to remove hate speech from their platforms, at least some of the people who spread it are finding ways to still organize online.
Strategies For Combating Online Hate
An analysis of the dynamics of online hate groups on social-media platforms reveals why current methods to ban hate content are ineffective, and provides the basis for four potential strategies to combat online hate.
Researchers Model Online Hate Networks In Effort To Battle Them
A new study identifies the network dynamics that help neo-Nazis and other extremists survive and thrive on social media—and suggests ways to defeat them
“Global Hate Highways” Reveal How Online Hate Clusters Multiply And Thrive
Social media platforms seem to be losing the battle against online hate.
First Of Its Kind Mapping Model Tracks How Hate Spreads And Adapts Online
Online hate thrives globally through self-organized, scalable clusters that interconnect to form resilient networks spread across multiple social media platforms, countries and languages, according to new research published today in the journal Nature.
Novel Mapping Model Tracks How Hate Spreads And Adapts Online
A team of GW researchers studying hate on social media outlined the challenges to dismantling online hate groups worldwide in a new paper.
Security Implications Of Quantum Computing
There is great danger with this technology, as quantum terrorists could bring down the future internet.