Free speech and hate speech

JW Howard - Annual Review of Political Science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Should hate speech be banned? This article contends that the debate on this question must
be disaggregated into discrete analytical stages, lest its participants continue to talk past one …

Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment

D Hangartner, G Gennaro, S Alasiri… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media
platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there is little consensus on …

Prosocialdialog: A prosocial backbone for conversational agents

H Kim, Y Yu, L Jiang, X Lu, D Khashabi, G Kim… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Most existing dialogue systems fail to respond properly to potentially unsafe user utterances
by either ignoring or passively agreeing with them. To address this issue, we introduce …

Thou shalt not hate: Countering online hate speech

B Mathew, P Saha, H Tharad, S Rajgaria… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aaai.org
Hate content in social media is ever increasing. While Facebook, Twitter, Google have
attempted to take several steps to tackle the hateful content, they have mostly been …

Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online

J Garland, K Ghazi-Zahedi, JG Young… - EPJ data …, 2022 - epjds.epj.org
Citizen-generated counter speech is a promising way to fight hate speech and promote
peaceful, non-polarized discourse. However, there is a lack of large-scale longitudinal …

Youth on standby? Explaining adolescent and young adult bystanders' intervention against online hate speech

M Obermaier - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Most adolescents and young adults frequently encounter hate speech online. Although
online bystander intervention is essential to combating such hate, young bystanders may …

Beyond denouncing hate: Strategies for countering implied biases and stereotypes in language

J Mun, E Allaway, A Yerukola, L Vianna… - Findings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Counterspeech, ie, responses to counteract potential harms of hateful speech, has become
an increasingly popular solution to address online hate speech without censorship …

CounterGeDi: A controllable approach to generate polite, detoxified and emotional counterspeech

P Saha, K Singh, A Kumar, B Mathew… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recently, many studies have tried to create generation models to assist counter speakers by
providing counterspeech suggestions for combating the explosive proliferation of online …

Towards knowledge-grounded counter narrative generation for hate speech

YL Chung, SS Tekiroglu, M Guerini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11783, 2021 - arxiv.org
Tackling online hatred using informed textual responses-called counter narratives-has been
brought under the spotlight recently. Accordingly, a research line has emerged to …

Analyzing the hate and counter speech accounts on twitter

B Mathew, N Kumar, P Goyal, A Mukherjee - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The online hate speech is proliferating with several organization and countries
implementing laws to ban such harmful speech. While these restrictions might reduce the …