The abuse heaped on players in high-profile matches is just the tip of the iceberg – a culture of online abuse permeates football at all levels.
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Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
To inform university responses to online harassment affecting graduate students, artist-researchers created original artworks in response to interviews with their peers who experienced online hate.
LGBTQ+ people face significant harms from online hate.
Efforts to disrupt online misogyny need to focus on stopping online forums from becoming misogynistic echo-chambers.
Those who feel disenfranchised from mainstream leaders are vulnerable to falling for the promises of online ‘leaders’ and ‘alt-moral entrepreneurs’.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
Online personalities like Andrew Tate are using social media to amplify their misogynist and anti-woman rhetoric. Social media companies deplatforming them can cut them off from followers and revenue.
Anyone who has trawled through an internet forum will have seen how anonymity can change people. What happens when young people are thrown into the mix?
Regulating online hate speech can have unintended consequences, such as reinforcing right-wing narratives and further marginalizing vulnerable communities.
We all have a role to play to address hostility online.
Disturbing online posts and written messages were purportedly left by Ethan Crumbley in the days running up to deadly school shooting.
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
Justin Trudeau has a reputation as a youthful progressive outside of Canada, but among right-wing Canadians online, he’s despised — and he’s been confronted with hostility on the campaign trail.
Australia’s piecemeal approach to regulating hate speech online isn’t working. The UK has introduced a possible better way forward.
We found LGBTIQ+ groups are exposed to an unacceptable level of discrimination and intimidation, including death threats, targeting of Muslims and threats of stoning or beheading.
A civil rights group is suing Facebook for its failure to stop the spread of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks say they are targeting hate, but they’re overlooking a major source of hateful content: gun talk.
‘Zoombombing’ trolls have started to infiltrate virtual meetings - bombarding unsuspecting victims with racist and sexist speech and in some cases, pornographic imagery.
Free speech is too important to leave it to a government regulator to decide what should be banned.
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University
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Associate Professor, Federation University Australia
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Lecturer in Political Theory, University of York
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Political Theory, UCL
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Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate in Criminal Law & Criminology; Lecturer of Criminology, University of Chester, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Education Futures, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
