Blogs

11 September, 2025
Domestic scholarship opportunities

We have two domestic PhD scholarships available to explore projects on hate and extremism. Possible areas …

8 September, 2025
When remorse backfires: hierarchy beliefs and hate-crime punishment

Check out this new article by Andrés Gvirtz, Patrick F. Kotzur, Andrew L. Stewart, and Felicia …

4 September, 2025
How Search Engines Shape Attitudes to Refugees

Check out this new article by Franziska Pradel published in New Media & Society. The study …

4 September, 2025
Research Shows Why Platforms Struggle to Curb Online Toxicity

Check out this article by Beknazar-Yuzbashev, McCrosky, Jiménez-Durán, and Stalinski: Toxic Content and User Engagement on …

7 July, 2025
New Study Shows Perspective-Based Counterspeech Can Reduce Online Hate

Check out this new article by Gennaro, Derksen, Abdelrahman and colleagues in Nature Scientific Reports, which …

19 May, 2025
When Online Hate Sparks Real-World Harm: New Study Uses Machine Learning to Predict Hate Crimes

Check out this new article by Carlos Arcila Calderón and colleagues, which digs into the link …

14 May, 2025
Boosting Harmful Content Detection with LLMs

Check out this new article by Elyas Meguellati, Assaad Zeghina, Shazia Sadiq, and Gianluca Demartini, exploring …

14 May, 2025
Smarter Data, Better Detection: A New Strategy to Tackle Implicit Hate Speech

Check out this new article by Do-Kyung Kim and colleagues on a smart way to make …

22 April, 2025
From Netflix to Real Life: What ‘Adolescence’ Tells Us About Incels and Online Misogyny

Check out this interesting commentary published by CREST on the Netflix series Adolescence and its links …

10 April, 2025
Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech changes online conversation threads

Check out this new article by Z.P. Rosen and Rick Dale in Humanities and Social Sciences …