Unsatisfied and helpless: New Poll on Digital Violence shows how social media platforms are failing users
...and Sweden were surveyed. The results are worrisome: users are largely unsatisfied with the quality of content moderation and often find the content decisions of the platforms incomprehensible. Moreover, the respondents demand low threshold options to complain about wrongful content decisions directly to the platforms. Hate speech, insults, and...
#Kriegstreiber: How a hashtag spreads propaganda
...as an example. A penchant for hate speech and Kremlin-friendly content: The people behind #Warmonger In our latest research, we analysed posts on Twitter that mention the term “warmonger”. 18,000 times the term was shared between the start of the war in February 2022 and mid-June. Just for comparison:...
Deepfakes and dick pics: EU protects women from digital violence
...be new laws against image-based online violence.” HateAid has been advocating and campaigning for comprehensive protection against gender-based online violence in the political process leading to the new directive. The focus of this commitment has been on criminalising the dissemination of nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes and unsolicited sending of...
Stop online hate against women!
...“Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence”. The EU now has the chance to stop attacks and humiliations against women. HateAid calls on all Members of the European Parliament to advocate for swift negotiations and effective provisions within the new Directive. Every day, women and...
HateAid warns: Millions of women affected by digital violence! International petition calls on EU to act immediately
...uploaded to porn platforms without consent. We demand effective measures to prevent the frequent abuse of intimate images EU-wide. Oblige online platforms to remove illegal content! Reported illegal content must not continue to remain online for months. Let users decide what is displayed on social media! Users must be able...
One election – hate by the thousands
...repeated in France. Gilbert Flam, president of the European and International affairs of LICRA “In this particular period for France and with the presidential elections coming up, LICRA considers that the IT platforms are responsible when it comes to moderating online hate speech. The recent court decision in...
Boundless hate. New Europe-wide survey on digital violence shows: Online platforms fail to protect against hate and incitement online
...cross-national, independent supervisory body is needed that can act on an equal footing with global tech corporations and thus balance out the current power imbalance between platforms and users. As a foundation and funding partner, we see ourselves in the role of an incubator, empowering an organization like HateAid to...
The Judgement in the case Künast vs. Facebook
...points the way in a completely wrong direction. The good and concise development of Art. 15(1) e-commerce Directive by the courts is fundamentally put into question by this far-reaching amendment and should therefore not be part of the DSA. Overview of the case Künast vs. Facebook The judges have...
Image-based abuse is a crime – and no one helps. Stop it now!
...illegal content and run mostly automated assessment of such reports, removals of abusive material are often slow, complicated and reliant on personal connections. If a platform does not react or their algorithm does not detect the abuse, nothing happens. But in reality, we know that impact on the victims is...
Political demands
...seriously and do not turn them away. Easier prosecution of perpetrators of digital violence Until recently, there was little awareness on the part of law enforcement agencies and legislators that not only deleting illegal content but also prosecuting the perpetrators is important in combating hate speech online....