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Elections in Digital Times: A Guide for Electoral Practitioners
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 146 pp.
"This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of international and regional standards and commitments related to the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, political participation, and privacy in the area of the internet, social media and Artificial Intelligence in elections. It al
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Double Standards in Social Media Content Moderation
New York: Brennan Center for Justice (2022), 39 pp.
"While social media companies dress their content moderation policies in the language of human rights, their actions are largely driven by business priorities, the threat of government regulation, and outside pressure from the public and the mainstream media. This report demonstrates the impact of c
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At the Interstice of Digital Rights and Environmental Justice: Four Issue Briefs to Inform Funding
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 56 pp.
"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together. Each brief states the key problem from the perspective of the APC networ
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Wetterfest durch den Shitstorm: Leitfaden für Medienschaffende zum Umgang mit Hass im Netz
Berlin: Neue deutsche Medienmacher (NdM); No Hate Speech Movement Deutschland, 5., überarb. Aufl. (2022), 69 pp.
Content Moderation and Local Stakeholders in Indonesia
London: Article 19 (2022), 77 pp.
"This research has shown that in the midst of the complex and diverse cultural context of Indonesia, growing use and misuse of social media in the country, and the complexity of ‘grey-area’ problematic content in the country, there has been a lack of meaningful and continuous dialogue between pl
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A Strategy for Effective Counterspeech Against Online Hate and Disinformation in Sri Lanka
Dehiwala: National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) (2022), 78 pp.
"This strategy, prepared through a consultative process, identifies some approaches and interventions in counter speech in the context of Sri Lanka's socio-political realities. It is meant to help streamline and scale up various efforts already being pursued by different individuals or groups. The f
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#DefendPressFreedom: Paradigm Repair, Role Perceptions and Filipino Journalists’ Counterstrategies to Anti-Media Populism and Delegitimizing Threats
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 16 (2022), pp. 2078-2096
"Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 Filipino reporters and editors from three influential media outlets that then President Rodrigo Duterte targeted as enemies – the broadcaster ABS-CBN, the newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer, and the website Rappler – this paper offers novel i
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Research Note: Fighting Misinformation or Fighting for Information?
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-15
"A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article, we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformatio
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SocialMedia4Peace: Taking Stock of Progress Achieved
UNESCO (2022), 2 pp.
"The overall objective of this UNESCO project is to strengthen the resilience of societies to potentially harmful content spread online, in particular hate speech inciting violence while protecting freedom of expression and enhancing the promotion of peace through digital technologies, notably socia
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Disinformation, Hoaxes, Curation and Verification: Review of Studies in Ibero-America 2017-2020
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 648-668
"This article is aligned with the recommendations of the main international organizations that fight against disinformation and infodemic, providing a review work that can be useful for researchers, professionals and scholars of the subject. Review articles like this one also help to establish futur
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Technique-Based Inoculation Against Real-World Misinformation
Royal Society Open Science, volume 9, issue 211719 (2022), 13 pp.
"In recent years, numerous psychological interventions have been developed to reduce susceptibility to misinformation. Inoculation theory has become an increasingly common framework for reducing susceptibility to both individual examples of misinformation (issue-based inoculation) and to the techniq
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A Human Rights Approach to Tackle Disinformation: Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Amnesty International (2022), 16 pp.
"Instead of criminalising or otherwise silencing people to address misinformation and disinformation, States should step up their efforts to ensure credible, reliable, objective, evidence-based and accessible information is disseminated to all." (Back cover)
Media Freedom in Southeast Asia: Repeal Restrictive Laws, Strengthen Quality Journalism
Bangkok: Asia Centre; Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 41 pp.
"This report proposes solutions on how best to equip journalists and other key actors to fulfil their vital role in a changing landscape. While censorship is an alluring option in the face of disinformation over the internet, it is important to find avenues to facilitate the responsible and ethical
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"As the online space becomes increasingly centre stage in the fight against antisemitism, this guide from ISD and B’nai B’rith International, in partnership with UNESCO, aims to build capacity among civil society to tackle this growing threat. Recognising the enormous capacity for positive actio
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Conflict and Online Space in the Sahel: Challenges and Recommendations
Brussels: Search for Common Ground (2022), 5 pp.
"With the growth of new social media users across the Sahel, existing conflict dynamics are increasingly manifesting. Sahelians are entering a complex digital space. The ability of individuals and communities to adapt to online/offline conflict dynamics will define the future of conflict in the regi
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Hate Speech: Definitionen, Ausprägungen, Lösungen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022), ix, 301 pp.
"Hate Speech ist Alltag, egal ob auf der Straße, im Parlament oder im Netz. Menschen werden beleidigt, entwürdigt und man ruft zu Gewalt auf. Die Folgen sind unübersehbar. Hate Speech ist so zu einem gesellschaftsbedrohenden Phänomen avanciert, befeuert durch politische und soziale Krisen wie di
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"The OECD convened a first-of-its kind international partnership on behavioural science and misinformation between the Canadian and the French governments to develop and disseminate behaviourally-informed and evidence-based solutions that can guide government response to misinformation. The study te
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Countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
United Nations, General Assembly (2022), 19 pp.
"The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/227. In it, the Secretary-General describes the challenges posed by disinformation and the responses to it, sets out the relevant international legal framework and discusses measures that States and technology enterprises re
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A Treatment for Viral Deception? Automated Moderation of COVID-19 Disinformation
Universität Innsbruck (2022), 110 pp.
"This paper examines responses to disinformation, in particular those involving automated tools, from a human rights perspective. It provides an introduction to current automated content moderation and curation practices, and to the interrelation between the digital information ecosystem and the phe
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