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Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment

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2021
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Hangartner, D., Gennaro, G., Alasiri, S., Bahrich, N., Bornhoft, A., Boucher, J., Demirci, B. B., Derksen, L., Hall, A., Jochum, M., Munoz, M. M., Richter, M., Vogel, F., Wittwer, S., Wüthrich, F., Gilardi, F., & Donnay, K. (2021). Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(50), e2116310118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116310118

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Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there is little consensus on approaches to mitigate it. While content moderation—either by governments or social media companies—can curb online hostility, such policies may suppress valuable as well as illicit speech and might disperse rather than reduce hate speech. As an alternative strategy, an increasing number of international and nongovernmental organizations (I/NGOs) are employing counte

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  • Hangartner, Dominik
  • Gennaro, Gloria
  • Alasiri, Sary
  • Bahrich, Nicholas
  • Bornhoft, Alexandra
  • Boucher, Joseph
  • Demirci, Buket Buse
  • Derksen, Laurenz
  • Hall, Aldo
  • Jochum, Matthias
  • Munoz, Maria Murias
  • Richter, Marc
  • Vogel, Franziska
  • Wittwer, Salomé
  • Wüthrich, Felix

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118

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50

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e2116310118

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multidisciplinary hate speech, social media, counterspeech, field experiment

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English

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2021-12-14

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2021-12-08

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0027-8424

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Hangartner, D., Gennaro, G., Alasiri, S., Bahrich, N., Bornhoft, A., Boucher, J., Demirci, B. B., Derksen, L., Hall, A., Jochum, M., Munoz, M. M., Richter, M., Vogel, F., Wittwer, S., Wüthrich, F., Gilardi, F., & Donnay, K. (2021). Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(50), e2116310118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116310118

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