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A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts, many belonging to influential Americans, to spread propaganda, researchers said
WASHINGTON: A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts — many belonging to influential Americans — to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts.
Current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who leads in the opinion polls, has spent six years dismantling Armenia's alignment with Russia | World News
As accountability takes centre stage, this edition examines mounting pressure on EU institutions and platforms alike: from the Ombudsman's maladministration finding against the Commission to fresh DSA enforcement actions targeting Meta and X. We also look at how AI tools are raising new safety ...
America is letting foreign disinformation run rampant.
Although platforms remain subject to national legislation, this legislation struggles to exert complete control over national sovereignty
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital communication platforms has significantly transformed the landscape of information di...
In early 2025, researchers published findings that Russia had launched an unusually early disinformation campaign targeting Armenia’s June 2026 elections. The operation was attributed to two Russian information warfare groups — Storm-1516 and the Foundation to Battle Injustice, both of ...
For several months, Armenia has been the target of a wide-ranging Russian disinformation campaign ahead of its parliamentary elections in early June. Researchers say the operation is among the most extensive in recent years. The Cube examines how and why false claims have been circulating.
Russian-linked “Matryoshka” operation hacked Bluesky accounts to spread AI-generated fake news on Ukraine.
How large is the European interest in Washington’s narrative of censorship and grievance? Dean Jackson considers evidence on the public record.
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
There may be some relief in the fact that hantavirus-related disinformation is far less deadly than the virus itself, but there should also be concern about how quickly the former is spreading.
Did AI-generated deepfakes swing the 2024 US election? The available evidence says no. Brookings researchers reported that less than 1% of all fact-checked misinformation during the 2024 election cycles was AI-generated. The dominant AI misinformation channel shifted instead to industrialized content farms; NewsGuard tracked at least 3,006 such sites by March 2026, up from at least 2,089 in October 2025...
PAC ads are using AI deepfakes to attack Kentucky GOP congressional candidates Thomas Massie and Ed Gallrein. Is that legal in Kentucky?
John Kelly, head of the social media analytics firm Graphika, showed 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl how hate groups, foreign governments, and influencers exploit natural disasters to manipulate people on social media.
FoUnD-VR aims to investigate how disinformation influences perception and decision-making in immersive spaces With the call for proposals for the research program “Research Platform for the Investigation of Disinformation in Virtual Reality (FoUnD-VR)” published on 29 April 2026, the Agentur ...
For the first election cycle in years, US military and intelligence officials have not yet activated a specialized team dedicated to detecting and thwarting foreign threats to elections, according to comments from those agencies to Congress and CNN, alarming some lawmakers and former officials ...
As enforcement moves to the forefront of the fight against disinformation, this edition looks at growing pressure on platforms through legal action, investigations, and national policy responses, highlighting the gap between ambition and implementation. We also examine how platform design, ...
Media and creators’ thirst for attention is nurturing the growth of conflict entrepreneurs who are driving disinformation and shaping public opinion. Here are ways credible research can neutralize their influence.
Storm-1516 campaign uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse.
This hub is your go-to resource for understanding the impact of AI on disinformation and finding ways to combat it.
The 3rd Cambridge Disinformation Summit was held 8-10 April 2026, focusing on the downstream harms caused by intentionally false and misleading information. Summit coordinator Alan Jagolinzer, Professor of Financial Accounting at Cambridge Judge Business School, reflects on some of the key lessons.
Social media companies have uncovered an effort by Russia to create a fake expert to spread false information in Africa.
As online platforms expand throughout the country, red tagging and fabricating Indigenous consent can spread faster, enabling land grabs and rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples, found research by nonprofit Asia Centre.
Supporters of prime minister Viktor ... March 16, 2026 ahead of April 12 parliamentary election - AP Photo/Denes Erdos ... Hungary's parliamentary election was a hotbed of disinformation, ranging from fabricated party platforms to Kremlin-linked influence operations....
Disinformation communicated by and on behalf of foreign powers is now part and parcel of digital statecraft in the information age, an expert from Cardiff University has said.
Hungary emerged as a new target for Storm-1516, Armenia and Ukraine remain in focus, Storm-1516's potential connections to Rybar and Rostec and more
AI images of people – such as women in military contexts – are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers say
As the video opens, Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico appears to stand in front of a Texas flag, beaming. Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist...
Sources say IRGC-linked Basij network isn’t targeting radicalisation in India but is shaping global narratives using misinformation, AI content, and amplification.
A network linked to pro-Kremlin actors is impersonating major media outlets to spread false claims about Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar ahead of parliamentary elections.
The first reporting round under the EU's Digital Services Act disinformation code has been published in the Code's Transparency Centre.
Researchers identified multiple ... Russian influence operations.[10][11][1] AFP fact-checkers debunked images of vehicles on fire in Tel Aviv as originating from the January 2026 anti-government protests in Tehran (Kaj Square). Reuters again debunked a “new” Iranian strike video on Tel Aviv as footage from June 2025...
EU says 27% of 2025 FIMI incidents used AI, with 29% attributed to Russia, as manipulation networks scaled across 10,500 channels.
The rise of such networks therefore ... users as influence actors and the growing relevance of political “idols” and fandom-like support bases in shaping contemporary political communication. ... Building on the analysis of shifting IO patterns, the RAIDAR project conducted an expert survey in 2025 using purposive sampling of one hundred respondents that RAIDAR selected for their high level of expertise on disinformation in Southeast ...
The operation aims not only to discredit specific individuals but to generate total cognitive chaos in Western societies ahead of major political events in 2026. EdgeTheory analysts warn that such automated disinformation renders traditional fact-checking methods almost useless, as the speed ...
European courts are beginning to activate the Digital Services Act. This edition looks at key rulings against Meta and X, the growing role of courts and civil society in enforcing platform rules, and new challenges from generative AI, election interference, and climate disinformation.
EU's External Action Service found that 88% of disinformation content targeting the EU in 2025 passed through X; politicians the main target
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Iran of using artificial intelligence as a “disinformation weapon” to misrepresent its wartime successes and support.
In early 2026, there were numerous reports noting a significant increase in hybrid incidents linked to Russia in Europe since 2025, with more than 150 suspected cases across the European Union and NATO member states, particularly in relation to the Munich Security Report 2026.
Katharina Zuegel and Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat lay out recommendations to address disinformation on messaging platforms without undermining encryption.
The PIB Fact Check unit has flagged a deepfake video of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as part of a wider Pakistan-linked misinformation campaign during the West Asia crisis.
By Kanza Sohail The recent conflict involving the US, Israel, and Iran is characterized by a surge of propaganda, disinformation, and narratives enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), along with false videos disseminated through social media. The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has ...
A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda influence campaigns — particularly around who
Unlike traditional cyberattacks, which target systems and data, psychological warfare targets people. Here's what cybersecurity leaders need to know.
AI-generated videos, recycled footage, and propaganda flooded social media during the 2026 Iran–Israel–US war. A documented analysis of major disinformation cases.
German security services warn of Russian attempts to influence 2026 state elections via disinformation, cyberattacks, and trust-undermining narratives.
Enforcement under the DSA is advancing across EU institutions, national courts and regulators, though implementation gaps persist. Civil society remains central to accountability. The shift is evident in the response to #Disinfo2026, which received more than 350 proposals.
Unsurprisingly, 2026 starts where 2025 left off: with disinformation escalating, accountability under pressure, and the rules of a free, trustworthy and pluralistic information space openly contested. This first EU DisinfoLab newsletter of the year brings together the stories setting the tone: from US travel bans targeting European counter-disinfo practitioners, to Venezuela and the rapid spread of disinformation following the US operation, and to platforms ...
Security experts have warned that Western governments are poorly equipped to counter a new frontier of online disinformation.
Matryoshka, a Russian influence operation that publishes pro-Kremlin disinformation videos mimicking credible Western media outlets including the BBC and CNN, has published 57 videos targeting France and Germany in 2026 so far, compared to 45 in 2025, NewsGuard found.
In the days surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's February election win, several dozen X accounts linked to a Chinese misinformation campaign attacked her deeply conservative views and hawkish approach to China, said a U.S. research institute focused on national security and ...
A new artificial intelligence (AI) agent could equip Europe to better defend itself against the barrage of Russian disinformation attacks. Cipher is Canadian-developed AI software that has proven to accurately and quickly detect Russian disinformation targeting Canadian networks, on both the ...
This edition focuses on three priorities: securing sustainable EU funding for counter-disinformation work, strengthening enforcement of the Digital Services Act, and tracking new national initiatives across Member States. As civil society faces mounting pressure, the focus shifts from policy ...
In this article, Daniel Haberfeld analyzes Iran's information-warfare strategy that reframed domestic unrest as a foreign conspiracy, using narrative control and external influence operations against Israel and the West as core tools of regime survival.
As Parliament calls for submissions on a law change to make deepfake crimes easier to prosecute, victim Summer Murphy shares her traumatic story.
Microsoft strengthens protections against non-consensual intimate imagery, expanding reporting tools, detection, and global partnerships to better support victims.
Two men were charged in a Brooklyn federal court for operating separate AI porn rings exploiting some 140 victims, all of them women.
AI deepfake pornography charges have been filed against two men under the Take It Down Act — the first major federal criminal prosecutions under the 2025 law. Federal prosecutors say Cornelius Shannon and Arturo Hernandez produced content depicting 140 named victims totaling nearly 3 million ...
An analysis by the Center for ... window in late December 2025 and early January 2026. The scale of the enforcement actions reflects the scope of the underlying harm. Research consistently shows that between 96 and 98 percent of all deepfake content online consists of ...
Federal prosecutors charged two men under the 2025 law that criminalizes non-consensual AI-generated intimate imagery.
The two men are some of the earliest defendants to be charged under a recently enacted federal law that targets A.I.-generated revenge porn.
4chan threads are functioning as the origin point for the dissemination of nonconsensual intimate imagery across platforms.
Federal prosecutors have charged ... targeting deepfake pornography · May 21, 2026 at 3:42 p.m. EDTMay 21, 2026 · FILE - A poster outside a roundtable about an online safety bill, hosted by first lady Melania Trump, is displayed in the Capitol, March 3, 2025, in ...
Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using AI to create nude videos and photos under a new law targeting deepfake pornography
The law deals with intimate AI deepfake images, but critics fear it can be misused.
Online platforms are now required by law to remove non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting, as a federal law criminalizing the sharing of such content goes into full effect Tuesday.
The European Parliament and Council outlaw “nudifier apps”. Starting 2 December, the ban targets companies developing AI systems for sexual deepfakes and users creating false intimate content of real people without consent.
The first federal conviction under ... in May 2025, was handed down in April 2026, against an Ohio man who used AI to create nonconsensual intimate imagery of neighbors — including children — and shared it on a child sexual abuse material website. Enforcement begins as the platform landscape is already under pressure. Earlier this year, Grok, the AI service built into X, was used to flood the platform with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of real ...
Adult content creators are having their performances used without consent. This is just one way that AI now threatens their rights and livelihoods.
Next week, a key part of a new federal law takes effect that is designed to help victims of AI-generated deepfake porn.
Social media platforms in India are now removing most non-consensual intimate images within two hours of complaints being filed, following updated IT Rules 2026. The stricter rules also apply to deepfakes, morphed media, impersonation, and explicit content targeting women and children.
The deepfake pornography ecosystem as a whole has only seemed to expand, writes Alejandro Cuevas.
Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by new ways to harass women online
A House of Commons justice committee has amended Canada’s proposed deepfake legislation to cover “nearly nude” images, closing a loophole that would have left AI-generated sexual images outside the law’s reach. The amendment to Bill C-16 came directly in response to the Grok chatbot ...
Photo: An anti-Musk and X (formerly Twitter) poster placed in a bus stop by the activist group ‘Everyone Hates Elon’ in London, United Kingdom, January 14, 2026. Kristian Buus / Getty Images A user types a single word: “Undress.” Within seconds, Grok, the artificial intelligence tool ...
The amendment was carried despite the objections of Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, who said "nearly nude" was not defined specifically enough.
Doctored sexualised images of the prime minister have surfaced before, particularly last year on a pornographic website that included altered images of high-profile women.
Italian prime minister had received wave of criticism from people who believed deepfake pictures of her were real
Explore the evolving landscape of image-based sexual abuse, from decades-old tactics to modern AI deepfakes, and how perpetrators evade detection. Read more at straitstimes.com.
More than 41% of women said they had self-censored on social media to avoid abuse, while 19% had pulled back from speaking out in a professional context.
Learn what to do if someone posts an AI-generated deepfake nude image of you, including laws on nonconsensual intimate images, and lawsuit options.
An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.
An Ohio man was convicted of cybercrimes involving obscene AI-generated images of women and children. But experts warn of the difficulties in going after such cases.
An Ohio man is the first person to be convicted under the Trump administration’s Take It Down Act, the Justice Department said.
Marie Seck and Magdalena Maier explore safeguards, challenges, and opportunities for an EU AI Act ban on AI-generated nudification.
Collien Fernandes accuses ex-husband Christian Ulmen of sharing sexually explicit deepfake images of her online
Germany's government is facing pressure to toughen laws against digital violence after a prominent television actor accused her former husband of posting AI-generated porn resembling her on fake online accounts purporting to belong to her.
Minnesota lawmakers are considering new legislation that would prohibit the creation of “deepfakes" using "nudification" tech while also paving the way for lawsuits against those who’ve created them.
Baltimore filed a lawsuit on March 24 accusing xAI and X of enabling mass creation of non-consensual intimate images via the Grok image generator, alleging violations of city consumer-protection laws and deceptive trade practices. The city cites a 'nudify' trend and Musk's posts as promoting ...
Following international regulatory probes, lawsuits are piling up in the U.S. against Elon Musk's xAI and its Grok chatbot.
The rise of accessible AI tools has intensified digital abuse, highlighting urgent calls for stronger legal frameworks and accountability for technology platforms.
Despite the scale of harm, women can’t get protection from artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake abuse because prosecutions are rare and platforms routinely fail to act, with survivors often re-traumatized when they try to seek help, according to the United Nations agency advancing women’s ...
She woke up to messages flooding her phone. Doctored images of her, sexualised and viral, had spread while she slept.
A new lawsuit filed Monday joins two others centered around nonconsensual explicit images allegedly made by the AI chatbot.
EU nations on Friday backed a ban on AI systems generating sexualised deepfakes, after an outcry over such images produced by Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok.
EU lawmakers reached a deal on 11 March to ban non-consensual AI deepfakes via AI Act amendments, a direct response to the Grok nudification scandal.
In “Enschittification 2.0,” social media has entered a new low. After degrading their services to exploit users for profit, these platforms are starting to become a cesspool of AI-generated slop and pornographic content.
Free-speech advocates and digital-rights groups say the bill is too broad and could lead to the censorship of legitimate images including legal pornography and LGBTQ content, as well as government critics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Problem Solvers Caucus announced its endorsement of the DEFIANCE Act (H.R. 3562), legislation to allow victims of non-consensual intimate deepfakes to sue people who create or distribute them. The bill unanimously passed out of the Senate last year and is currently ...
Kennedy Aikey explores the rapid rise of deepfake pornography and the real harms inflicted by fabricated intimate images in the digital age. She argues that the DEFIANCE Act is a critical federal response, urging Congress to equip survivors with a meaningful civil remedy and stronger tools ...
In a new series by CBC Podcasts, hosted by 404 Media's Sam Cole, join journalists, investigators, and targets of non-consensual intimate images on the hunt for the worlds’ most prolific deepfake mastermind.
Deepfake porn laws are changing fast. Learn what's illegal under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, state laws, and global regulations — and why these laws matter.
AI face-swapping and image-generation tools have supercharged non-consensual intimate image abuse (NCII)—especially sexual deepfakes—at a pace that policy, schools, and platforms have not matched. The harms are immediate (blackmail, suicide risk, reputational ruin) and systemic (scaled ...
What is deepfake abuse and why laws, platforms, and justice systems are failing women
The Government is to introduce ... images (NCII), including deepfakes, within 48 hours of being notified: a move welcomed by domestic abuse charity Refuge as a “long-overdue step forward”. The announcement follows mounting concern about the scale of technology-facilitated abuse. Refuge, which operates a specialist Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team, reported a 62% increase in referrals in 2025 compared with ...
Section 230 gave platforms immunity. The EU's DSA imposed accountability. Now the first fines are landing. Here is the state of platform liability and...
EU's Digital Services Act, UK's Online Safety Act and US First Amendment: compare how three jurisdictions handle online hate speech differently in 2026.
Both online safety codes will take effect on 1 June 2026, with a grace period for verification processes.
The MCMC’s first formal Section 39 enforcement under the Online Safety Act 2025 lands on TikTok, with a.. • Internet • One News Page: Thursday, 21 May 2026
Republicans in Washington often call the EU’s digital platform rules online censorship. For those working in adult industries, sex education and women’s health, the rules should be a tool to combat suppression of lawful speech online – but many say restrictions on their posts and accounts ...
Elon Musk's X has agreed to strengthen protection for UK users against illegal hate speech and terrorist content, Britain's media regulator said on Friday, following months of regulatory pressure.
Ofcom said the commitments were of particular importance after recent crimes targeting Jewish communities in the UK.
Meta has launched a legal challenge against Ofcom over the fees and fines regime it is enforcing under the Online Safety Act. This is the first major challenge to the enforcement architecture of th…
India’s hate speech regulation is shifting toward localized, state-led censorship regimes that risk bypassing constitutional safeguards, writes Amber Sinha.
In the 2026 SMSI Platform Scorecard, X receives a score of...
GLAAD announced today the findings of the sixth annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), its yearly evaluation of public-facing policies related to LGBTQ safety...
The following Key Findings and Recommendations are drawn from GLAAD’s year-round research and monitoring, and reflect the most basic best practice expectations for social media platform...
'Hate speech' is notoriously hard to define and is usually a subjective characterization. But that's not going to stop California lawmakers.
The new measure from a key Democrat aims to take the first steps on AI regulation this year, while saving heavier lifts for later.
A new Council of Europe recommendation offers a framework for platform regulation that places human rights and user empowerment first, writes Owen Bennett.
When the European Union's Digital ... content moderation and the takedown of illegal material. Two years into enforcement, the practical bite of the law is showing up somewhere less visible but arguably more consequential: the design of the platforms themselves. The DSA's second enforcement wave, which begins in Q2 2026, extends ...
Drawing from the Digital Policy Alert’s daily monitoring of G20 countries, the roundup summarizes the highlights in four core areas of digital policy.
EU transparency data shows platforms remove vast amounts of content, yet users rarely challenge moderation decisions across social networks.
Meta and YouTube are held liable for addictive design after a landmark trial, X rejects that its algorithm is politically biased, and the UK is to pilot social media ban for under 16s – plus other key updates.
The report also recommends government do more to make tech companies liable for ‘psychosocial harms’
Panel proposes mandatory social media KYC, stricter intermediary rules, and a unified cybercrime law to curb online harms against women.
Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.
AI systems generating non-consensual sexual content face a ban under new EU proposals, following incidents such as the Grok chatbot scandal.
A raft of law changes have been passed to address how Jersey prosecutes violent and sexual offences including intimate image abuse, the creation of AI deepfakes, stalking and strangulation.
Metro got the inside scoop on what the government plan to do to tackle the digital Violence Against Women and Girls epidemic
Cambridge will end the use of X for official communications, ordering the City Manager to shutter city accounts within 60 days.
TikTok removed 112 million pieces of content – mainly with automated systems – that violated the platform's policies in the EU between July and December 2025, according to the platform's latest Digital Services Act transparency report.
The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”
How did the two directors of the German digital rights nonprofit HateAid become targets of the Trump administration? Here’s how they’re continuing their mission.
Examining the impact of AI on violence against women and girls, particularly concerning disinformation, online abuse, and women’s participation in public life.
16-17 February 2026 Amsterdam Law School (University of Amsterdam)
EU risk assessments and platform litigation in the US represent distinct approaches to governing and mitigating risks posed by social media platforms.
Addictive design remains substantively under-addressed in VLOPs’ systemic risk assessments under the Digital Services Act, writes Cecilia Isola.
X this week launched a landmark legal challenge against the €120 million fine it received in December under the Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU censorship law.
The Digital Services Act has empowered EU users, with platforms reversing nearly 50 million content moderation decisions in two years, challenging platform policies and restoring users' digital rights.
A recent report published by the Appeals Centre Europe has shown that 70% of content reported as online hate speech on social media is not removed by platforms. An organisation of experts in...
Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review
Social media users complained of hate speech mainly from France, followed by Belgium and Italy.
Toxic online messages remain widespread in Europe, targeting people based on their politics, race and identity. Which EU countries face the highest levels of hostile content?
Some of the biggest social media sites on the internet are becoming more toxic for LGBTQ+ users, according to the new LGBTQ Social Media Safety Index produced by GLAAD.Researchers from
X has finally committed to introducing stronger protections against illegal hate and terror content in the UK. Here’s how our work made it happen.
Elon Musk’s X is bowing to UK pressure, promising faster reviews of reported hate speech and terror-related content after scrutiny from Ofcom.
British regulator says commitments by social media platform are 'of particular importance' following recent attacks on British Jews; activist: X still 'failing in so many regards'
In 2025, 42.3% of internet users in the EU encountered messages online that they considered hostile and degrading towards specific groups of people or individuals. The EU aggregate is based on 20 countries for which data are available · In 7 EU countries, more than half of the people encountered ...
GLAAD's annual Social Media Safety Index have confirmed what the LGBTQIA+ community have been shouting for over a year: Meta's anti-LGBTQ policy changes have made their platforms more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ users, especially transgender and non-binary people.
The annual Social Media Safety Index report accuses Meta and YouTube of rolling back protections while online anti-LGBTQ+ hate and disinformation surge.
GLAAD's annual report found a social media landscape 'rife' with anti-LGBTQ hate.
Studying the types of messages hate groups spew online helps researchers understand the groups' persistence.
The governance of hate speech online is a growing challenge. While governments and social organizations have developed initiatives to mitigate hate online, it remains unclear what users would prefer regarding hate speech governance. How do people think online hate speech should be regulated?
PROXY MEMORANDUM To: Shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc. (the “Company” or “Meta”) From: The Anti-Defamation League (“ADL”) & JLens (together, “we”) Date: April 28, 2026 Re: The case to vote FOR Proposal 8 (“Report on Addressing Antisemitism and Hate in Online Platforms”) ...
The Odisha State Law Commission has presented comprehensive recommendations for the Odisha Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Act, 2026, to the
This report provides a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of verified hate speech events targeting religious minorities in India throughout 2025.
The publication is part of the platform’s compliance work with the EU Digital Services Act under the EU Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online.
TikTok has released its first transparency report under the EU Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online. The report, published on April 10th, details the platform’s efforts to detect and remove hate speech in compliance with the EU Digital Services Act.
This research examines harmful online discourse targeting Jordanian influencers and public figures on Instagram over a 12-month period.
OTTAWA - The number of police-reported hate crimes stayed steady in 2024, after sharp increases in prior years, Statistics Canada said Monday.
UK News: LONDON: British MP Bob Blackman has described research by an independent non-profit research organisation in the US, which found that anti-Indian rhet.
Report finds anti-Indian posts on X gained 300 million views in 2025, fueled by H-1B policy debates online.
Pedro Sánchez presented HODIO, a system to analyse how hate speech is spread on social networks and to evaluate the impact of algorithms on digital polarisation.
Spanish prime minister says it’s aimed at holding platforms accountable for how their algorithms amplify polarizing content.
Spain will launch a tool to measure hate speech on digital platforms as part of a broader strategy to increase oversight of social media companies, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday.
Communities secretary tells MPs that government has to act against record levels of hate crimes
The government made a flurry of other policy announcements to distract from its 11th-hour changes to its hate speech laws, writes state political reporter Alex Brewster.
Social media users consider it "normal" to encounter online hate speech on social media and see it as part of the online environment. In certain contexts, they find it more normal than in others; for example, when it concerns prominent figures such as policymakers and content creators.
This study examines the capacity of secondary school students in Barcelona province to identify and counteract hate speech in digital media. Analyzing respon...
When it comes to hate speech online, India lacks a regulatory framework that matches the scale of what's documented, writes David David Sathuluri.
The online portal is set be hosted at Freedom.gov.
UpScrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including usernames and hashtags that contain racial slurs.
As the first case under new anti-deepfake legislation goes before the courts, authorities and experts say the rise in the creation of the non-consensual sexually explicit material is concerning.
Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough