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Online Comment Moderation. Emerging Best Practices

The study offers a wide range of online comment management methods adopted by media outlets and companies around the world, pointing out to the best practices for dealing with offensive and unsuitable comment and hate speech

Hate speech: a short animated story

13/12/2017

A short animated story realized in the frame of the project “PRISM. Preventing, Redressing and Inhibiting Hate Speech in New Media”

Online Comment Moderation. Emerging Best Practices

The study offers a wide range of online comment management methods adopted by media outlets and companies around the world, pointing out to the best practices for dealing with offensive and unsuitable comment and hate speech.

Strong unions key to winning decent working conditions

A new survey by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) shows that unions have helped winning higher pay, saving jobs, and securing new collective agreements over the past twelve months.

5 Components of Information Literacy

28/01/2014

Information literacy is crucial for media literacy. This explanatory video by the Seminole State Library of Florida presents the five components of information literacy and explains how this is related to freedom of speech and freedom of the media since it deals also with recognizing the limits and protections of free speech and censorship

Defining "Fake News." A Typology of Scholarly Definitions

In the last two decades, the term "fake news" has been used with several different meanings, which fall into six categories. It is possible to map them out according to their reliance on facts and their intention to mislead

Promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

The September 2015 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and the protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye focuses on the protection of sources of information and whistle-blowers

Ethics in the news - EJN Report on Challenges for Journalists in the Post-truth Era

A report by the Ethical Journalism Network provides assistance to journalists facing the challenges of researching and reporting stories in the post-truth era

Freelancers: instruments and victims of deregulated working conditions

For a growing number of journalists in Europe, atypical is the new typical and precarious employment is becoming the norm

Media manipulation and disinformation online

The report “Media manipulation and disinformation online” explores how Internet subcultures and radicalised groups, including far-right activists in the United States, exploit web opportunities to influence the mainstream media agenda