"The three countries [Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya] provide evidence of online hate speech and disinformation affecting human rights offline. The evidence is not comprehensive yet clear enough to raise serious concerns. Online gender-based violence is also reported as critical in the three countries. In the three countries, national legislation to address harmful content shows some degree of inconsistency in comparison to international standards, notably in relation to the protection of freedom of expression. The reasons for such inconsistency vary among countries. The effective enforcement of legal frameworks is uneven in all three countries. Social and cultural inequalities are often reproduced in government or judicial decisions, and vagueness in legislation opens space for discretionary decisions. Platform companies have offices in Indonesia and Kenya, but not in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the three countries, there is a lack of transparency in how companies allocate the roles of moderation tasks, including the number of different language moderators and their trusted partners and sources. Companies do not process content moderation in some of the main local languages and community standards are not entirely or promptly available in local languages." (Executive summary)
The importance of analyzing the digital realm in conflict-prone countries, 7
1 INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE LEGITIMATE RESTRICTIONS OF HARMFUL CONTENT, 9
2 OVERVIEW OF COUNTRY REPORTS, 26
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 26
Indonesia, 33
Kenya, 39
3 COMPARISON POINTS, 45
4 MAIN FINDINGS, 50
5 RECOMMENDATIONS, 55