Removals of Online Hate Speech in Numbers
Author: | Gollatz, K., Riedl, M. J. & Pohlmann, J. |
Published in: | Digital Society Blog, HIIG Science Blog, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Cross-posted at Media Policy Project Blog, London School of Economics, London, UK. |
Year: | 2018 |
Type: | Other publications |
DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.1342325 |
Six months after a new German law – the Network Enforcement Act – has come into full effect, social media platforms are tasked to report on illegal hate speech. But as these figures have been made available, what can we learn from them? Researcher Kirsten Gollatz, Fellow Martin J. Riedl and Jens Pohlmann from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) have a closer look at the reports.
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