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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 06/06/2025

President Trump has ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for every undocumented migrant accused of a capital crime – but not all U.S. citizens similarly charged. Cathy Buerger argues that Trump’s order is an attempt to codify his dangerous speech toward migrants.

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How Trump’s Death Penalty Order Codifies Dangerous Speech

Tying the harshest punishment the state can impose to the identity of the accused is dangerous speech that can increase intergroup violence.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 21/03/2025

One year ago we published an oped against deliberate mass starvation of civilians in Gaza. Appallingly, that grave crime is still underway www.dangerousspeech.org/libraries/op...

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OP-ED: Israel Can - and Must - Fight Hamas Without Starving Gazan Civilians to Death

Israel's sluggish delivery of food aid to Gaza is unconscionable: it is tantamount to torturing civilians.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

We are seeing the migration of online instigation to offline consequences in near real time, realising what the @dangerousspeech.org framework warns us. What's imagined, & called for, is often realised far quicker than many believe possible, esp. in (New Zealand's) current information environment.

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Photos of hooded people believed to have vandalised K Rd rainbow released

The prominent pride flag across the road on the famed street appears to have been coated in white paint.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 21/03/2024

Read the full op-ed here: dangerousspeech.org/op-ed-israel...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 21/03/2024

What’s happening is tantamount to torturing civilians. Israel – and the United States – must act to relieve needless suffering and death.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 21/03/2024

But fighting will only stop when both sides agree to it, or Hamas is crushed, and neither is likely soon. Meanwhile, nearly two million people are enduring tremendous suffering.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 21/03/2024

‼️ Out now in @haaretzcom: “For all the agonizing days since October 7, Israel and Gaza have been the subject of a battle of words alongside the actual war,” writes Susan Benesch.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 20/03/2024

The internet is a resource that’s inseparable from our day to day lives. #NetNeutrality protections are critical to ensuring everyone benefits from the internet. Join us in telling the @FCC that we need to restore net neutrality now. bit.ly/3SkhIQ9

LETTER: 100 CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS CALL ON FCC TO RESTORE NET NEUTRALITY PROTECTIONS

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE
Join us in telling the FCC to restore #NetNeutrality protections NOW.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Latest article by @timothysnyder.bsky.social snyder.substack.com/p/the-bloodb... merges political critique, as only he can, with - though he doesn't refer to it as such - the dangerous speech @dangerousspeech.org framework around inciting violence. It's extremely worrying for US, & rest of us too.

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The Bloodbath Candidate

In Context, Trump is Worse

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

The dangerous speech @dangerousspeech.org framework teaches us that when those in authority dog whistle or more explicitly signal certain things, extremists immediately pick it up, amplify, spread, and normalise. Today, a white supremacist man based in NZ railed against DEI in a YouTube video.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 12/03/2024

We have signed the ACLU’s letter to the House of Representatives with a coalition of other orgs, which you can read here: www.aclu.org/documents/co...

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Coalition Letter to House of Representatives Opposing H.R. 7521 | American Civil Liberties Union

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 12/03/2024

Banning TikTok could have an even more dire impact in an election year: it's a hub for news and information that will be critical to ensuring eligible voters have the right information and are not susceptible to mis- and dis-information. #DontBanTikTok

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 12/03/2024

As Susan Benesch and Ethan Zuckerman wrote in their op-ed, “The best way to protect people from harms engendered by TikTok (and other social media platforms) is to unleash researchers so they can build up knowledge collectively.” dangerousspeech.org/to-protect-p...

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To protect people from TikTok, don’t ban it. Study it.

The best way to protect people from harms engendered by TikTok (and other social media platforms) is to unleash researchers so they can build up knowledge collectively. That

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 11/03/2024

“Online debate shouldn’t be outsourced to AI, even though there’s excited buzz about this prospect, and several university teams are building AI tools to respond to digital hatred.” techpolicy.press/can-ai-rescu...

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Can AI Rescue Democracy? Nope, it’s Not Funny Enough | TechPolicy.Press

AI can’t do the thing that is essential for democratic civic and political life: engaging and debating other people, write Susan Benesch and Cathy Buerger.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Around 12 mins 54 secs, the following exchange takes place. Given the media, & political culture in New Zealand, it's an extraordinary invocation of violence, & what The Disinformation Project studies as 'dangerous speech'. @dangerousspeech.org To his credit, interviewee doesn't wholly endorse term.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Role Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines played in the Rwandan genocide is vital to remember - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm68... The work of @dangerousspeech.org, which TDP uses as a foundational framework, notes how content, & commentary inciting a violent othering, normalises violence. Always.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

Follow along as we release our monthly briefs throughout the 2024 U.S. elections: dangerousspeech.org/research/202...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

Using expert researchers and #AI software designed to search 20+ unmoderated online platforms, Director of Research Cathy Buerger is leading a novel effort to find and analyze dangerous speech as it emerges, and share the information with counterspeakers and others countering hatred.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

As the 2024 U.S. election approaches - alongside dozens of other elections around the world - there is an increasing possibility of intergroup violence, along with increasing dangerous speech.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

In the examples above, Republicans are, in essence, accusing Democrats of using this rhetorical technique – claiming that Donald Trump and his supporters are violating people’s rights, when rather, it is Democrats who are doing so.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

This is an interesting iteration of the dangerous speech hallmark “accusation in a mirror: attributing to one’s enemies the very acts of violence the speaker hopes to commit against them: dangerousspeech.org/guide/

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024

Our researchers saw an increase in rhetoric by influential right-wing speakers around the idea that Biden is doing exactly what Democrats accuse Trump of – violating the U.S. Constitution, behaving like a dictator, and endangering democracy.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 15/02/2024

Follow along as we release our monthly briefs: dangerousspeech.org/research/202...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 15/02/2024

As the 2024 U.S. election approaches – alongside dozens of other elections around the world – there is an increasing possibility of intergroup violence, along with increasing dangerous speech.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 15/02/2024

The juxtaposition of the election denial protests with the conflict between state and federal forces over the southern border adds fuel to a unified conspiracy theory of tyrannical, anti-democratic, government overreach.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 15/02/2024

Political speech on the far right continues to emphasize the need for increased use of force. Audiences are directed to “prepare for war,” and to “guard the polls like soldiers,” along with numerous calls for the national guard to man polling stations.

https://dangerousspeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elections-Research.pdf

Across topics, political speech on the far right continues to emphasize the
need for increased use of force.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 13/02/2024

We will continue to release our monthly election research findings here: dangerousspeech.org/research/202...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 13/02/2024

Using expert researchers and software designed to search 20+ unmoderated online platforms, Director of Research Cathy Buerger is leading a novel effort to find and analyze dangerous speech as it emerges, and share the information with counterspeakers and others countering hatred.

January 2024 Research Brief: Dangerous Speech & the 2024 U.S. Election

Our January 2024 findings:
1. Speech that connects drugs and the outgroup
2. Speech suggesting a need for increased militarization
3. Speech that portrays President Joe Biden and the left as "threats to democracy"
4. Claims that dissent is being criminalized
5. Dehumanizing speech against trans people

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 13/02/2024

📰 Yesterday's op-ed in the L.A. Times drew from a key finding of January's election research brief. 🧐

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 12/02/2024

‼️ OUT TODAY in the L.A. Times👇 Many Americans believe migrants bring fentanyl across the border. That’s wrong and dangerous www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 26/01/2024

Repudation of dangerous speech must start immediately. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant responded to the Court’s order on Friday by saying that he did not need “to be lectured on morality.” That isn’t, of course, the Court’s function nor its purpose. Its order is law, and Israel must treat it as such.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 26/01/2024

The Israeli government must, as part of its efforts to prevent acts of genocide, strongly and clearly repudiate the dangerous speech of many of its ministers and public figures, since that speech has encouraged Israeli troops to perceive all Gazan civilians as their enemies.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 26/01/2024

The Court cited many examples such as Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Oct 12 remark “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved…we will fight until we break their backbone.”

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 26/01/2024

Among other steps it ordered, the Court directed Israel to do all it can to prevent and punish incitement to genocide. This would be a vital and dramatic change since the Israeli president, minister of defense and other top leaders have publicly described all two million Gazans as mortal enemies.

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 26/01/2024

if a state is failing to protect people from genocide (which is what the ICJ ordered Israel to do), the international community has an obligation to intervene – by force if necessary. www.un.org/en/genocidep...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 17/01/2024

‼️TOMORROW👇 dangerousspeech.org/event-counte...

https://peacethroughactionusa.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/peace-through-action-events-counterspeech-countering-online-hate-in-the-2024-elections-january-18-2024-from-7-00-8-00-pm-et

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 12/01/2024

We've signed the X-last pledge by @indivisibleguide.bsky.social 👉 Check out their low-risk approach to divesting from the platform, and finding safer online spaces 😊👇 xlast.org

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

spoke to KCBS yesterday about Trump's language and immigration policy. This language is not innocent. It is very dangerous because it licenses violence. omny.fm/shows/kcbsam... @dangerousspeech.org Polisky Skystorians

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Dangerous speech. x.com/mluckovichaj... @dangerousspeech.org

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 05/01/2024

This groundbreaking dataset is the largest detailed study so far of dangerous speech in one context. We are proud of this collaboration and hope this work will serve as a model for others projects in other countries: dangerousspeech.org/bangladesh/

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 05/01/2024

Professor Aynul Islam and Executive Director Susan Benesch identify dangerous speech leading up to the January 7th elections in Bangladesh, supported by a new dataset created in collaboration between the DSP and Professor Aynul Islam’s team. dangerousspeech.org/on-the-brink...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 22/12/2023

Thrilled to welcome Brandi Geurkink as executive director of the Coalition of Independent Tech Research (CITR)! 🥳 independenttechresearch.org/welcoming-br...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 19/12/2023

‼️ Valuable insights into Trump’s most recent anti-immigration rhetoric from Election Fellow @afilindra.bsky.social ⬇️

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 07/12/2023

“It suggests that the outcome of the election is foregone. It’s been decided. Is it actually guarding the election against fraud, or is it guarding the election against a result in which Trump is not declared the winner?” - Executive Director Susan Benesch apnews.com/article/trum...

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Dangerous Speech Project @handle.invalid · 05/12/2023

The Israel-Hamas war has spawned hateful, violent and even genocidal comments, both in person and online. Executive Director Susan Benesch offers suggestions for Christian leaders to recognize and undermine it. faithandleadership.com/how-identify...

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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

GNI expresses deep concern on the serious restrictions to #freedomofexpression taking place in the context of the Hamas and Israel conflict. We call on all actors to respect intl law and work to ensure civilian connectivity to ICT services. Our statement: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-statemen...

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GNI Statement on the Communications Restrictions in Gaza

The Global Network Initiative (GNI) expresses deep concern regarding the serious restrictions to freedom of expression taking place in the context of the conflict between Hamas and Israel. In particul...

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