Tag: Online hate
‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered the highly regarded Harvard Commencement address, calling out social media as a threat to modern...
Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned
By Bea Cupin in Manila
Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa has called on tech and social media giants to practise “enlightened self-interest” amid a global...
NZ covid-19: Social media in the spotlight over disinformation
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist
As covid-19 spreads around the world, it can be daunting keeping up with the information. For RNZ, the news...
Online hate speech ‘gives green light’ to religion, race attacks
By Michael Andrew
Religion and race-based attacks will continue as a result of the rise of online hate speech, says a leading New Zealand academic.
Professor...