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Information Manipulation in Sudan: A Baseline Assessment of Actors, Narratives and Tactics
Thomson Foundation (2026), 81 pp.
"The destruction of Sudan’s established information infrastructure at the outset of the conflict in April 2023 has created an environment where systematic information manipulation and disinformation campaigns now flourish unchecked. This has intersected with increasing systematic information manip
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Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 261-287
"Die audiovisuelle Plattform TikTok bildet mittlerweile einen relevanten Aushandlungsort für soziale Gruppen aller Art. User*innen bietet sich die Möglichkeit, eigene Räume für Vernetzung zu schaffen und Identitätsmanagement zu betreiben. Aufgrund der Plattformaffordanzen – vor allem Multimod
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The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxvii, 765 pp.
"Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Hate Speech Events in India. Report 2025
Washington, DC: India Hate Lab (IHL); Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) (2025), 111 pp.
"India Hate Lab (IHL) documented 1,318 hate speech events targeting religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians, in 2025 across 21 states, one union territory, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. On average, four hate speech events occurred per day. This marks a 13% incr
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A matter of perception? Investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 21 pp.
"An increasing number of media users report frequent encounters with hate speech on the internet. Content moderation is only effective when the applied criteria align with users’ perceptions of hate speech. To explore what media users perceive as hate speech and which factors influence this percep
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Unpacking Affective Polarization in Afghanistan: Ethnic Politics, Elite Competition, and Online Divisive Content
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2024), 25 pp.
"Affective polarization has been a persistent feature of Afghanistan’s society and politics in the past decades. However, with the instantaneous collapse of the republic’s government and the return of the Taliban, the country has witnessed heightened affective polarization along ethnic and ideol
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Living hated: Everyday experiences of hate speech across online and offline contexts
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 49, issue 2 (2024), pp. 243-262
"The article builds on current research into the effects and harms of hate speech in the lives of its victims. It introduces the anthropological concept of everyday violence to focus on hate speech as an everyday experience as opposed to a sequence of separate hate speech acts. Methodologically, the
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Ain't no Game: Antisemitism in Gaming and on Social Media
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
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Legal Challenges and Political Strategies in the Post-Truth Era: Online Hate Speech Trilogy - vol II
Covilhã; Cali: LABCOM; Editorial Universidad Icesi (2024), 186 pp.
Populism Fuels Hate Speech and Disinformation: Evidence From Political Discourse on X (Formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5694-5713
"This study discusses the relationship among the various dimensions of populism, hate speech, and disinformation within the political discourse on X (formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan. Employing manual content analysis, we examined 7,141 posts from both populist and non-populist political lead
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
Deep Insights
Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das
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Hate Speech FORSA-Studie 2024: Zentrale Untersuchungsergebnisse
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2024), 24 pp.
Perception and consumption of hate speech in the Lebanese media
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2024), 25 pp.
“Drop a Bomb on Them . . . and Problem Solved!”: An Analysis of Poverty Discourse on TikTok
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1135-1156
"This research analyzes the discursive characteristics of hate messages posted on TikTok Spain against people at risk of social exclusion. Using critical discourse analysis, we analyzed 679 hateful messages generated by 100 videos found about poverty. This method considered the social groups mention
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Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5629-5651
"Although there has been recent interest in the effects of exposure to online hate speech targeting ethnic minority groups, there are some underexplored areas. In a context dominated by debates over free and hateful speech across social media platforms, it has never been more pertinent to investigat
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Code & Vorurteil: Über Künstliche Intelligenz, Rassismus und Antisemitismus
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 231 pp.
"Was bedeutet die zunehmende Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz für die Demokratie, für Offenheit und Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft? Wie gerecht entscheiden Algorithmen? Vielfach zeigt sich, dass KI-Anwendungen strukturelle Ungleichheit und bestehende Diskriminierungsmuster reproduzieren können. Den
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Platform Problems and Regulatory Solutions: Findings from a Comprehensive Review of Existing Studies and Investigations
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO; Research ICT Africa (2023), 17 pp.
"The proliferation of hate speech and disinformation on online platforms has serious implications for human rights, trust and safety as per international human rights law and standards. The mutually-reinforcing determinants of the problems are: ‘attention economics’; automated advertising system
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