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Global Government Leaders Added to IEEE CS' 2023 Tech Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) announced the addition of key global government leaders to its slate of speakers for its 2023 Tech Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms. The 2023 Tech Forum, taking place 2-3 October in Washington, D.C., will bring together global technology leaders, government officials, policy makers, researchers, and computer science professionals to tackle the challenges around Hate Speech; Extremism and Exploitation; and Misinformation and Disinformation.

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  • Taking Place 2-3 October in Washington, D.C., the Forum Will Tackle Challenges around Hate Speech; Extremism and Exploitation; and Misinformation and Disinformation
    LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) announced the addition of key global government leaders to its slate of speakers for its 2023 Tech Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms.
  • The 2023 Tech Forum, taking place 2-3 October in Washington, D.C., will bring together global technology leaders, government officials, policy makers, researchers, and computer science professionals to tackle the challenges around Hate Speech; Extremism and Exploitation; and Misinformation and Disinformation.
  • "The harm inflicted through hate speech, extremism, misinformation and disinformation on digital platforms is staggering," said Dr. Andre Oboler, CEO, Online Hate Prevention Institute, Australia, and 2023 Tech Forum Co-Chair.
  • To access the full program and information on all speakers for the 2023 Tech Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms, visit https://tech-forum.computer.org/societal-harms-2023/ .

Expert.ai Recognizes Natural Language Apps That Encourage Positive Change

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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BOSTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Expert.ai announced today the winners of "Turn Language into Action: A Natural Language Hackathon for Good", which ran on the Devpost platform from September 8 to October 27, 2022. A qualified panel of judges selected six winners from a pool of more than 500 global participants.

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  • BOSTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Expert.ai announced today the winners of "Turn Language into Action: A Natural Language Hackathon for Good", which ran on the Devpost platform from September 8 to October 27, 2022.
  • A qualified panel of judges selected six winners from a pool of more than 500 global participants.
  • PagePal uses the expert.ai NL API to highlight and label emotional traits in text on the screen so that readers can follow the emotional elements throughout a story.
  • Join us for the live streaming session on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gNd6txd2
    Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.

Digital Platforms and Societal Harms Tech Forum Reveals 2022 Interactive Program

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The program has been announced for the Digital Platforms and Societal Harms Tech Forum, taking place virtually over multiple events from 17 October to 4 November 2022. This IEEE Computer Society tech forum focuses on dangerous societal harms – Hate Speech, Extremism, Exploitation, Misinformation, and Disinformation – that are amplified by digital platforms such as social media, online games, and the metaverse. Attendees will hear about the latest approaches to these critical problems, including insights from experts developing technological solutions such as AI and machine learning, join Q&A sessions with the speakers, and participate in small group discussions on each topic.

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  • This IEEE Computer Society tech forum focuses on dangerous societal harms Hate Speech, Extremism, Exploitation, Misinformation, and Disinformation that are amplified by digital platforms such as social media, online games, and the metaverse.
  • The IEEE Computer Society's Tech Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms brings together policymakers and technologists to explore the intersection of current technical efforts with public policies, and the resulting impacts on society.
  • The program includes the following scheduled activities:
    The session will discuss hate speech on digital platforms, from social media to online gaming and the metaverse.
  • The use of digital platforms to aid in violent extremism (terrorism) and child exploitation will be examined in our second panel.

#BlockHate campaign highlights the perils of inaction on online hate speech as politicians debate hate speech legislation in Ottawa

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Thursday, July 29, 2021
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The launch of the latest video, coincides with a reported 250 percent spike in hate crimes across North America1.

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  • The launch of the latest video, coincides with a reported 250 percent spike in hate crimes across North America1.
  • This timely video focuses on the story of Carla Beauvais, a Black Montreal-based columnist who experienced online hate.
  • "The staggering rise in online hate speech is cause for alarm," says Maya Roy, CEO at YWCA Canada.
  • Key topics include motivations for hate crime (e.g., race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation), types of offences, geographical comparisons, and victim/accused characteristics.

Anti-Asian Online Hate Speech On The Rise - And Major U.S. Brands Are Inadvertently Funding

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Thursday, May 13, 2021
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And while many major U.S. brands have taken action to combat racism targeting Asian Americans, some of these same companies are also unintentionally funding online hate speech through their advertising.

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  • And while many major U.S. brands have taken action to combat racism targeting Asian Americans, some of these same companies are also unintentionally funding online hate speech through their advertising.
  • From January - March 2021, $153 million was spent on digital ads on U.S.-based URLs that have published content with anti-Asian rhetoric.
  • News sites that published articles flagged as including anti-Asian hate speech were visited by 38.1 million people during Q1 2021.\nNearly one-third of the hate speech in March 2021 came from one site.
  • The connection between online hate speech and hate crimes in real life is undeniable.

Utopia AI Determines Amounts of Hate Speech on Different Social Platforms

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Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Blogs, news comments and public Facebook messages make up less than 0.02% of all identified hate speech.

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  • Blogs, news comments and public Facebook messages make up less than 0.02% of all identified hate speech.
  • A key goal was to find the main channels of hate speech, and to identify differences in hate speech from platform to platform.\nThe definition of hate speech was based on academic research in the social sciences.
  • The definition was done by producing hate speech categories, and then used to manually identify examples of hate speech in a data set of online messages.
  • Moreover, we can build a similar AI model to identify hate speech in any language in only two weeks.

Press release - MEPs unanimously condemn recent terrorist attacks in France and Austria

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Thursday, November 12, 2020
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At the same time, measures promoting integration into our societies, education and non-discrimination should be further developed and supported.

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  • At the same time, measures promoting integration into our societies, education and non-discrimination should be further developed and supported.
  • Several members referred to the need to urgently tackle online aspects of radicalisation and hate speech.
  • Some called for inter-institutional negotiations on legislation that would require terrorist content to be removed from the internet to be concluded immediately, whereas others considered it equally important to reach a balanced outcome, protecting fundamental rights and freedom of expression.
  • Catch up with the debate by VOD

Federal Support Towards New Youth Initiative Tackling Online Hate

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
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Today, the Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Bill Blair, announced $759,762 to YWCA Canada for their project Block Hate: Building Resilience against Online Hate Speech.

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  • Today, the Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Bill Blair, announced $759,762 to YWCA Canada for their project Block Hate: Building Resilience against Online Hate Speech.
  • The YWCA will bring together partners from digital industry, civil society, government, and academia to better understand online hate in Canada, support those targeted by hate speech, inform technical solutions to online hate, hate crime, and radicalization to violence, and increase community resilience.
  • This project aims to strengthen the way people respond to online hate speech and create safer online spaces for young Canadians impacted by hate speech by providing best practices on how to respond.
  • "The experience that Canadians have online should be free from hate and fear, and empowering young Canadians to speak out against online hate in a safe way is an important step.

Mark Zuckerberg, There's No Denying It! Holocaust Survivors From Around The Globe, Supported By The Claims Conference, Make Personal Appeals To Facebook CEO: Remove Holocaust Denial Posts

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
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In the first-ever digital campaign driven by Holocaust survivors, the message to Zuckerberg is clear: "Holocaust denial posts on Facebook are hate speech and must be removed!"

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  • In the first-ever digital campaign driven by Holocaust survivors, the message to Zuckerberg is clear: "Holocaust denial posts on Facebook are hate speech and must be removed!"
  • The Claims Conference, which advocates and secures compensation and social services funding for Holocaust survivors around the world, has argued that Holocaust denial is intentional and therefore a violation of Facebook's own community standards.
  • "Most of my family was murdered, as well as many of my friendsYou must know that Holocaust denial is nothing short of hate dialogue.
  • My mother, my father and my little brother Thomas were murdered by the NazisThis is my story, there is no denying it."

Mark Zuckerberg, There's No Denying It! Holocaust Survivors From Around The Globe, Supported By The Claims Conference, Make Personal Appeals To Facebook CEO: Remove Holocaust Denial Posts

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Historical negationism, Holocaust studies, Articles, Software, Operating systems, The Holocaust, Censorship in Germany, Holocaust denial, Facebook, Bibliography of The Holocaust, Hate speech, Legality of Holocaust denial

In the first-ever digital campaign driven by Holocaust survivors, the message to Zuckerberg is clear: "Holocaust denial posts on Facebook are hate speech and must be removed!"

Key Points: 
  • In the first-ever digital campaign driven by Holocaust survivors, the message to Zuckerberg is clear: "Holocaust denial posts on Facebook are hate speech and must be removed!"
  • The Claims Conference, which advocates and secures compensation and social services funding for Holocaust survivors around the world, has argued that Holocaust denial is intentional and therefore a violation of Facebook's own community standards.
  • "Most of my family was murdered, as well as many of my friendsYou must know that Holocaust denial is nothing short of hate dialogue.
  • My mother, my father and my little brother Thomas were murdered by the NazisThis is my story, there is no denying it."