Gloria Gennaro

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation?

We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech?

➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation - https://cup.org/4sgFqNl

- Gennaro, Bronner, Derksen, @maelkubli.bsky.social, Kotarcic, Kurer, Grech, @karstendonnay.bsky.social, @fgilardi.bsky.social & Hangartner

#FirstView

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London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science We are inviting submissions for the London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science (LESS), a new forum for discussing experimental political science research among researchers at London unive...

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⚡️In times of platforms stepping back from moderation, counterspeech is users' chance to support civility online

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But they also ↓ likes and retweets received by the xenophobic tweet

Compared to control, only perspective approaches:

↑ deletion likelihood of xenophobic posts
↓ new xenophobic tweets over 4 weeks

Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment | PNAS Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there...

2,102 xenophobic Twitter posts received one of 4 randomized responses -- 3 perspective-based counter speech messages, and one disapproval message -- or were assigned to a passive control group

Building on our previous work on #empathy-based counterspeech: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media

📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟

with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅

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UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.

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