Tag: hate speech

Civil society organizations and individuals from around the world are calling on Facebook to immediately take action to stop its services from being used to incite violence, propagate hatred, and advance discrimination in Ethiopia.

The government has made online hate speech an easy scapegoat for violence that may have deeper causes, while pushing through new legislation that increases its power to censor.  

We have identified practical examples and promising practices to support policy makers in respecting human rights while developing measures to address disinformation and misinformation during the COVID-19 crisis.

Broad and vague laws for “online harms” and increased reliance on automated filtering are not the right answers to tackling illegal content online.

Three cases in the European Union that involve Facebook have broad implications for intermediary regulation and the future free expression online. Eliska Pirkova explains.

Human rights activists and civil society organizations oppose updates to the law that could enable violation of rights and freedoms guaranteed by Jordan’s Constitution.

Governments globally are pushing companies to “do more” to address harmful speech online. Any approach must bolster, not undermine, human rights.

We are creating tools and systems that discriminate against vulnerable populations and make the internet less secure. That has to change.