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Working Group on Infodemics: Policy Framework
Key Guides
Forum on Information & Democracy (2020), 127 pp.
"The Forum on Information & Democracy proposes a number of policy steps to democratic governments and their supporters. Transparency and accountability need to be shored up and content moderation should be done according to democratic mandates and oversight. The impact of new platforms where disinfo
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Der unsichtbare Krieg: Wie die Digitalisierung Sicherheit und Stabilität in der Welt bedroht
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 302 pp.
"Die Digitalisierung hat nicht nur zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen der Lebens-, Arbeits- und Wirtschaftswelt geführt, sie hat auch massive Auswirkungen auf die internationale Politik. Diese Auswirkungen, so Yvonne Hofstetter, stellen die Sicherheitspolitik der Staaten vor massive Herausforderungen
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Ser periodista en Twitter: Violencia de género digital en América Latina
Buenos Aires; Bogotá; Paris: Comunicación para la Igualdad Ediciones; Sentiido; UNESCO (2020), 131 pp.
"Las periodistas mujeres son atacadas, al igual que sus colegas varones, por los temas políticos o de coyuntura que publican; pero se utilizan contra ellas muchas más expresiones discriminatorias vinculadas al género y agresiones con connotaciones sexuales. En los ataques contra las periodistas h
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"Data, including information collected by the MERIT project, demonstrates that social media and social messaging are powerful tools in Mali, and have the potential to both positively and negatively impact society, particularly in relation to violent extremism. Malian youth use social media and messa
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Challenging Extremist Views on Social Media: Developing a Counter-Messaging Response
London; New York: Routledge (2020), vi, 175 pp.
"Focusing predominantly on efforts countering Salafi-Jihadi extremism, this book examines how feasible it is to prevent or counter radicalization and violent extremism with countermessaging efforts. It investigates important principles to consider when devising such a program. The authors provide bo
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Models of Governance of Online Hate Speech
Council of Europe (2020), 198 pp.
"For some users the current Internet epoch can be considered the Internet of Hate which poses serious human rights concerns. Reflecting the scale and seriousness of the problem, innovations in governance tools for online hate have been initiated by national governments, intergovernmental organisatio
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Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: Using a Text-Message Survey to Assess Radio Programs
RAND Corporation (2020), 32 pp.
"Using a randomized encouragement design, we assigned 2,064 people to listen to either 'Ina Mafita' or to a control program (professional soccer matches) each week over the course of two months. Recruitment and engagement were conducted remotely via short message service (short message system [SMS]
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Working Paper: Designing Narrative-Based CVE Products with a Structured Professional Judgment Approach
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 25 (2020), pp. 158-196
"Inspired by methods used in risk assessment, this paper suggests a structured professional judgment approach (SPJ) to facilitate the decision-making process in expert group settings tasked with the development of narrative-based countering violent extremism (CVE) products. The added value of this c
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Subversion im Cyberraum: Sicherheit, Freiheit und Resilienz gegen Angriffe im Netz
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 59 pp.
"Die technischen Möglichkeiten der Cyberwelt haben gänzlich neue Potenziale zur Beeinflussung von politischen Präferenzen in anderen Staaten eröffnet. Die Meinungsbildung in offenen Gesellschaften wird zunehmend durch subversive Maßnahmen autoritärer Regime im Internet beeinflusst, wodurch der
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Developing a Civil Society Response to Online Manipulation
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2020), 30 pp.
"This document presents a vision for a grand, civil societal response to online manipulation: developing the capability to detect it; the coalitions to confront it, the strategies to prevent it, and the structures of cooperation and funding that are needed to do both across all the causes and issues
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Fear and Lying in the EU: Fighting Disinformation on Migration with Alternative Narratives
Key Guides
Brussels: European Policy Centre (2020), 51 pp.
"This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic) published between May 2019 and July 2020. It shows that disinformation narratives about migration seek to exploit readers’ fears to polarise public opinion, manufacture d
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Desinformation aufdecken und bekämpfen: Interdisziplinäre Ansätze gegen Desinformationskampagnen und für Meinungspluralität
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 217 pp.
"Was macht Desinformation im deutschsprachigen Internet aus? Wie wirkt Desinformation? Wie kann sie mithilfe technischer Mittel erkannt werden? Was kann und könnte mit regulatorischen und rechtlichen Maßnahmen gegen Desinformation getan werden? Aus den Erkenntnissen von Journalistik, Medienpsychol
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Rechte Ego-Shooter: Von der virtuellen Hetze zum Livestream-Attentat
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 208 pp.
"Rechtsextremistisch, antisemitisch oder rassistisch motivierten Anschlägen fielen seit 2019 in Neuseeland, den USA, Norwegen und Deutschland 86 Menschen zu Opfer. Die Täter verbindet nicht nur ihr Hass, sondern ebenso ihre Radikalisierung im Internet. Sie alle fanden zuvor in einschlägigen Foren
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"This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon of hate speech and its potential to legitimise discrimination and promote violence against its targets. It lays out the interconnections between Islamophobia, hate speech and acts of physical violence against Muslims. The role of social media, especi
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Disability Hate Speech: Social, Cultural and Political Context
London; New York: Routledge (2020), ix, 255 pp.
"This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academi
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Las políticas de las grandes plataformas sobre discurso de odio durante el COVID-19
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 32 pp.
Jumanji Extremism? How Games and Gamification Could Facilitate Radicalization Processes
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 23 (2020), pp. 1-43
"This article makes an exploratory contribution to the theoretical foundations of the study of gaming in radicalization research. It is argued that both top-down and bottom up gamification have already impacted extremist discourse and potentially radicalization processes but that research on gamific
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Analysis of Ethiopia’s Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation No.1185/2020
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 4 pp.
"Although the Proclamation has good intentions of curbing hate speech in Ethiopia, it fundamentally restricts freedom of expression online and the right to information. Further, the proclamation has a chilling effect on online and offline rights, which could lead to self-censorship. For instance, jo
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