Online talk:
Social Media and Hate Speech: How does discrimination spread through algorithms?

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Time: 19:00 - 20:30 (UTC +3)

In the recent years, discriminatory language, hate speech and fake news have become increasingly widespread on social media platforms. Are big technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ struggling with the spread of hate speech on their platforms? Is this effort enough? How are existing algorithms opt to fuel discrimination and polarization?  What are the roles of government, civic society, and academics in addressing hate speech on social media? How can free expression be protected while combating hate speech?

In the online talk titled “Social Media and Hate Speech: How does discrimination spread through algorithms?” we will discuss hate speech on social media with Susan Benesch, founding director of the Dangerous Speech Project. You can register for the online talk where we will focus on the methods used in combating hate speech, new technological advancement in this field, the roles and responsibilities of different actors with Yasemin İnceoğlu's contributions and questions.

    • The event will be held via Zoom.
    • There will be simultaneous translation in Turkish and English at the event.
    • It will be broadcast live on the Foundation's YouTube, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
    • You can fill the registration form out to participate in the event.
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Susan Benesch

Susan Benesch is the founder and director of the Dangerous Speech Project, a nonprofit research team that studies dangerous speech and ways to counteract it while protecting freedom of expression. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Dangerous Speech Project hakkında

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression. Dangerous Speech Project focuses on four areas: Tracking and studying dangerous speech in many countries; Researching effective responses to dangerous speech and other forms of harmful expression; Advising social media and other tech companies on their policies, and encouraging them to engage in transparent research; Teaching dangerous speech ideas to a variety of people who use them to study and counter dangerous speech

Yasemin İnceoğlu

After working at Marmara University between 1984 and 2004, Yasemin İnceoğlu started working at Galatasaray University Faculty of Communication in 2004 and retired in 2016. In addition to being a member of international organizations such as ILAD, UNESCO and the American Institute of Biography, İnceoğlu gave lectures and seminars in Columbia University (1994), Salzburg Seminerine (2003), Jawaharlal Nehru University Center for Media Studies in New Delhi (2014), and European University Institute (2017).

This online talk will be held within the scope of our project, which we carry out with the support of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and where we aim to detect hate speech in Turkish with artificial intelligence.