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Online Radicalization and Ways to Counteract its Impact

Gonzalo Croci

Tbilisi: Social Justice Center (2024), 16 pp.

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Mitigating disinformation in Europe: Challenges and opportunities for civil society organisations and private actors

Wade Hoxtell

Gütersloh; Berlin: Bertelsmann Stiftung;Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) (2024), 36 pp.

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Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem

Tanja Marie Hansen, Lasse Lindekilde, Simon Tobias Karg, Michael Bang Petersen, Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen

Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 49, issue 3 (2024), pp. 444-467

"Hate is widespread online, hits everyone, and carries negative consequences. Crowd moderation—user-assisted moderation through, e. g., reporting or counter-speech—is heralded as a potential remedy. We explore this potential by linking insights on online bystander interventions to the analogy of ... more

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Deutscher Rap will keine Juden in seinem Ghetto. „Antisemitismus in der deutschen Rap-Szene und der Jugendkultur“: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung einer Veranstaltungsreihe der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit

Julia Bernstein, Florian Diddens

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2024), 35 pp.

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Methods, Techniques and AI Solutions in the Age of Hostilities. Online Hate Speech Trilogy, vol. III

Branco di Fátima (ed.)

Covilhã; Cali: LABCOM;Editorial Universidad Icesi (2024), 222 pp.

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Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 13 pp.

"Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transfor ... more

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Ain't no Game: Antisemitism in Gaming and on Social Media

Oliver Marks

ELNET Deutschland;Combat Antisemitism Movement (2024), 5 pp.

"Antisemitism Surges Online: Antisemitic content on platforms like X spiked by 919 percent following the October 7 Hamas attacks, spreading hate that deeply affects Jewish users, especially the young. Enhanced moderation systems combining AI and human oversight, along with stricter regulations, are ... more

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Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide
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Jon Bateman, Dean Jackson

Washinton, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2024), vii, 119 pp.

"This report offers a high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation. It distills core insights from empirical research and real-world data on ten diverse kinds of policy interventions, including fac ... more

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Stronger together: Coalitions as a catalyst for information integrity

Tim Niven

São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2024), 18 pp.

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Hassrede im Netz: Von den Grenzen der Meinungsfreiheit. Informationen für pädagogische Fachkräfte

Klaus Beutler, Lisa Buschmann, Matthias Felling et al.

Düsseldorf: klicksafe;Landesanstalt für Medien NRW;Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder und Jugendschutz (2024), 39 pp.

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Countering violent extremism through internet intermediaries: A typology for cross-country comparison

Vincent Pak-Hong Wong

Global Media and Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 3-22

"This paper examines the counter-violent extremism and anti-terrorism measures in Australia, China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States by investigating how governments leveraged internet intermediaries as their surrogate censors. Particular attention is paid to how political rhetoric l ... more

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Winning the Battle of Ideas: Exposing Global Authoritarian Narratives and Revitalizing Democratic Principles

Joseph Siegle

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2024), 23 pp.

"Rather than selling authoritarianism as such, authoritarian narratives focus on themes that have popular appeal—while attributing a wide range of visceral grievances to the shortcomings of democracy. Authoritarian narratives fall into four broad categories: 1. Noninterference, Choice, and Threats ... to Sovereignty: Narrative attempts to invoke universal themes such as sovereignty, noninterference, and choice which are presented as under threat from the spread of democracy. 2. Exploiting Grievances in the Global South: Tactics designed to attribute the numerous grievances in the Global South to exploitation by the West. 3. Democracies Failing to Deliver: A narrative that takes aim at the efficacy of democracy and, by implication, amplifies the ill-informed narratives about effectiveness of authoritarian governance. 4. Need for a New World Order: Collectively, the claims of Western interference, exploitation, and governance failures are intended to generate disillusionment with democracy and receptiveness to nondemocratic rule. Autocrats use a variety of channels to disseminate these preferred narratives at scale. The four following methods are particularly noteworthy: 1. Social Media: Authoritarians have taken advantage of the enormous—and still growing—social media sphere to promote narratives legitimizing autocracy. They exploit many users’ limited digital literacy skills through information influence campaigns and the employment of bots and online “troll farms” to peddle their preferred worldview. 2. State Broadcasters: Authoritarian actors also disseminate narratives through state media like RT, Sputnik, Xinhua, and China Global Television Network (CGTN). These outlets have the tone and imprimatur of an official news service, giving them a veneer of credibility that expands their reach. 3. Partnerships with Local Media: Authoritarian state-backed outlets aim to embed their content within national information environments. By disseminating preferred narratives through local media outlets and training foreign journalists, authoritarian actors are able to propagate norms of state control over the public information sphere. 4. Foreign Media Cooptation: Finally, authoritarian states are forging partnerships with other state broadcasters. These relationships have the indirect effect of incentivizing self-censorship and enable the intimidation of journalists and activists who criticize authoritarian leadership." (Executive summary, page 1-.2) more

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Debunking and exposing misinformation among fringe communities: Testing source exposure and debunking anti-Ukrainian misinformation among German fringe communities

Johannes Christiern Santos Okholm, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Marijn ten Thij

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 5, issue 1 (2024), 13 pp.

"Through an online field experiment, we test traditional and novel counter-misinformation strategies among fringe communities. Though generally effective, traditional strategies have not been tested in fringe communities, and do not address the online infrastructure of misinformation sources support ... more

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A guide to counter fake news

Abeer Kapoor, Nitika Kakkar, Praveen Kr. Tiwari

New Delhi: Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation (SMART) (2024), 77 pp.

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From Disinformation to Influence Operations: The Evolution of Disinformation in Three Electoral Cycles

Rossine Fallorina, Jose Mari Hall Lanuza, Juan Gabriel Felix, Ferdinand Sanchez, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Nicole Curato

Internews (2023), 56 pp.

"How has the Philippine disinformation landscape evolved since 2016? How different was the 2022 presidential election from previous electoral cycles? And what lessons can we learn from electoral triumphs and defeats often associated with disinformation? This report goes to the heart of these questio ... more

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The Media Manipulation Casebook

Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2023)

"The Media Manipulation Casebook is a research platform [launched in 2019] that advances knowledge of misinformation and disinformation and their threats to democracy, public health, and security. The Casebook is a resource for building the field of Critical Internet Studies by equipping researchers ... more

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Information Integrity to Sustain Peace during Electoral Processes. Sustaining Peace during Electoral Processes (SELECT) Project

New York: UNDP (2023), 48 pp.

"The purpose of this report is to gain a better understanding of the pertinent dynamics and to bolster the design of programming to support the information ecosystem around elections. In aid of this, UNDP sought information through a number of channels, in a review of the relevant literature, a seri ... more

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Evaluation finale: « Projet renforcement de la résilience communautaire à la désinformation dans les régions du nord et du centre du Mali »

Sékou Doumbia, Zoumana Kone

Search for Common Ground (2023), 57 pp.

"Les objectifs du projet cadrent bien avec un certain nombre de politiques ou stratégies comme décrit dans le présent rapport. A titre d’exemple, on citer la politique nationale de lutte contre le terrorisme et l’extrémisme violent dans son Pilier 1, ainsi que la stratégie nationale de la r ... more

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Lebanon's Information Environment: Exploring Appropriate Responses

Mirna Ghanem

Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation;National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 32 pp.

"The purpose of this study is twofold: to understand how the Lebanese public consumes news published on traditional and alternative media, with a focus on how they perceive and deal with disinformation campaigns and fake news, and to build a comprehensive view of the organizations and initiatives th ... more

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Countering Misinformation via Emotional Response Generation

Daniel Russo, Shane Peter Kaszefski-Yaschuk, Jacopo Staiano, Marco Guerini

arXiv, issue 2311.10587 (2023), 17 pp.

"The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms (SMPs) poses a significant danger to public health, social cohesion and ultimately democracy. Previous research has shown how social correction can be an effective way to curb misinformation, by engaging directly in a constructive dialog ... more

Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide Key Guidance

Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide
Key Guidance