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The Kremlin's Troll Network Never Sleeps: Inauthentic Pro-Kremlin Online Behavior on Facebook in Germany, Italy, Romania and Hungary

Lóránt Gyori, Csaba Molnár, Péter Krekó, Patrik Szicherle et al.

Budapest: Political Capital Institute (2022), 36 pp.

"The research – based on programmatic text-mining supported analyses of several millions of war-related comments scraped by Sentione and further examined with CrowdTangle - found traces of inauthentic, repetitive pro-Kremlin activity on Facebook in all countries under review, which can be consider ... ed attempts to influence public opinion in the affected states and, in some cases, beyond them. Our main conclusions are: Crises help the Kremlin. Even if public opinion in the EU is currently unfavorable to the Kremlin, the onset of high, permanent inflation, soaring energy prices and the looming danger of an EU-wide recession could create a more favorable environment for the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts. Most (covertly) Kremlin-friendly forces will adopt a rhetoric blasting sanctions for harming Europe more than Russia. Importing disinformation narratives. Three out of the four narratives found in Hungary were imported into the country from abroad. One doubting Ukraine’s existence as a country started from an organization connected to Ukrainian pro-Putin oligarch Viktor Medvechuk, taken over by the so-called “news agency” of separatists. Another narrative detailing a new, dictatorial world order based on, among others, COVID-19 restrictions, and led by NATO was aimed at developing countries where Russia can hope to hold more sway. The third essentially took over a trend in the Russian media space: users tried to discredit anti-war voices by asking them “where they were in the past eight years” when Ukraine committed atrocities against minorities. Strategies in Germany: Divide and Rule. The six relevant narratives we found in Germany employed three different strategies. The first was anti-Westernism, where the US and NATO are to blame for Russia’s attack. The second aimed clearly at generating debates by spreading a Kremlin-critical narrative. Some profiles involved in this were caught disseminating both pro-Kremlin and anti-Kremlin narratives, which indicates it is not intended to counter the Kremlin’s information operation but to be a part of it. The third strategy was about exploiting contemporary events - such as heightened discussions on sanctions and rising inflation." (Executive summary) more

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The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 612 pp.

"This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual ch ... more

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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.

"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more

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The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
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Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xxiv, 544 pp.

"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from ... more

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State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: The Responsibility to Prevent

Irwin Cotler

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 430-455

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Does International Law Provide for Consistent Rules on Hate Speech?

Toby Mendel

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 417-429

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One Step Beyond Hate Speech: Post-Soviet Regulation of "Extremist" and "Terrorist" Speech in the Media

Andrei Richter

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 290-305

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A Survey and Critical Analysis of Council of Europe Strategies for Countering "Hate Speech"

Tarlach McGonagle

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Péter Molnár (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 456-498

"To summarize a very expansive set of standards and concomitant strategies, it can be said that the three main prongs to the Council of Europe's approach to countering "hate speech" are: (1) the prevention / prohibition / punishment of certain types of expression (e.g., incitement to hatred, racist ... more

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Orbing Hate? Satellite Transponders and Free Expression

Monroe E. Price

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 514-537

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What's Wrong with Defamation of Religion?

Kwame Anthony Appiah

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 164-182

"In March 2010, in Geneva, the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC) voted by a narrow margin to accept a nonbinding Resolution on “Combating Defamation of Religions.” (Hereafter, “the Resolution.”) Resolutions like this one have been offered regularly at the HRC and in the General Assembly, have ... more

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Shielding Marginalized Groups from Verbal Assaults Without Abusing Hate Speech Laws

Yared Legesse Mengistu

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 352-277

"There is immense difficulty in regulating hate speech on the ground of ethnicity when ethnicity is a prime cehicle for political organization and mobilization. On the one hand, substantive (real) equality demands that certain marginalized ethnic gropus be shielded from hate speech in order to have ... more

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Media Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe

Beata Klimkiewicz (ed.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2010), xxvi, 336 pp.

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Reporting the Post-Communist Revolution

Robert Giles, Robert W. Snyder, Lisa De Lisle (eds.)

New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers (2001), xv, 245 pp.

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