Gloria Gennaro
@gloriagennaro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Public Policy and Data Science at UCL | http://gloriagennaro.rbind.io
⚡️In times of platforms stepping back from moderation, counterspeech is users' chance to support civility online
@karstendonnay.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social
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July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
⚡️In times of platforms stepping back from moderation, counterspeech is users' chance to support civility online
@karstendonnay.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social
@karstendonnay.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social
But they also ↓ likes and retweets received by the xenophobic tweet
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
But they also ↓ likes and retweets received by the xenophobic tweet
Compared to control, only perspective approaches:
↑ deletion likelihood of xenophobic posts
↓ new xenophobic tweets over 4 weeks
↑ deletion likelihood of xenophobic posts
↓ new xenophobic tweets over 4 weeks
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Compared to control, only perspective approaches:
↑ deletion likelihood of xenophobic posts
↓ new xenophobic tweets over 4 weeks
↑ deletion likelihood of xenophobic posts
↓ new xenophobic tweets over 4 weeks
2,102 xenophobic Twitter posts received one of 4 randomized responses -- 3 perspective-based counter speech messages, and one disapproval message -- or were assigned to a passive control group
Building on our previous work on #empathy-based counterspeech: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Building on our previous work on #empathy-based counterspeech: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment | PNAS
Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media
platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there...
www.pnas.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
2,102 xenophobic Twitter posts received one of 4 randomized responses -- 3 perspective-based counter speech messages, and one disapproval message -- or were assigned to a passive control group
Building on our previous work on #empathy-based counterspeech: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Building on our previous work on #empathy-based counterspeech: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....