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Fighting Online Hate Speech With Data

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Episode 289

November 20, 2023

00:56:51

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Hosted by Dave Levine

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

In this November 2023 interview, Hearsay Culture highlights the groundbreaking and unique expertise and work of a return guest, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Megan Squire, a computer scientist and the nation’s leading hate speech and social media data scientist. Not only a zealous advocate, Megan collects, aggregates, and analyzes quantitative data on hate groups found on social media and other platforms, and conveys this information to those that may be impacted, or may be able to respond. Having witnessed the Charlottesville right-wing protest in 2017 (including being in close proximity to Heather Heyer, the murdered 32 year old counter-protestor), Megan provides her unique insights on hate and its manifestations on the web. Listen to hear about Megan’s brave and essential work, why she does what she does, and how an expert views the continuing rise of hate groups online.

“The online ecosystem is too fraught right now. It’s broken in too many ways to just not care.”

-Megan Squire

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

-Joseph Fort Norton

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Megan Squire

Dr. Megan Squire is the Deputy Director for Data Analytics and Open Source Intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center and a former computer science professor at Elon University. The Anti-Defamation League named her a Belfer Fellow for her ability to collect quantitative data from social media to understand the impacts of hate groups. Squire and her work has been cited and quoted by the world's leading news outlets, including NPR, The Washington Post, BBC, and many more, and has led the modern effort to analyze hate speech on social media from a data science perspective.

HOST BIO

DAVID LEVINE

Dave Levine is the founder and host of Hearsay Culture. He is a Professor at Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School). From 2014-2017, he was a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is also the co-author of Information Law, Governance, and Cybersecurity (West 2019). A regular contributor to Slate, Dave has been published in leading newspapers, websites, and academic journals in the US and EU.

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