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id: "aiethics:webinar/ai-hate-speech-and-online-content-moderation-seminar-series"
type: "AI Ethics course webinar series"
title: "AI, Hate Speech and Online Content Moderation Seminar Series"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/webinars/ai-hate-speech-and-online-content-moderation-seminar-series"
summary: "COVID-19 has led to a rapid acceleration of automated content moderation and a reduction of human moderation. This has been problematic as algorithms have struggled to correctly interpret content leading to hate speech remaining online while other messages have been mistakenly identified as being…"
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
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# AI, Hate Speech and Online Content Moderation Seminar Series

A webinar series of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

Organised by Oxford-UJ Global Media Policy Seminar Series.

COVID-19 has led to a rapid acceleration of automated content moderation and a reduction of human moderation. This has been problematic as algorithms have struggled to correctly interpret content leading to hate speech remaining online while other messages have been mistakenly identified as being ‘dangerous’. Furthermore, most algorithms have been developed and trained on content from the global north and have struggled to be sensitive to context, and even more so in countries in the global south where social media companies have been less engaged. These trends may have a particular impact in regions that are already affected by a multitude of destabilizing factors like climate change, political instability and economic uncertainty. This seminar series attempts to offer insight into some of the challenges faced by hate speech and automated content regulation on the continent. This seminar is organized by Freie Universität Berlin, the Weizenbaum Institute, the School of Communications at the University of Johannesburg, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies’ Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the University of Oxford. We are grateful for the support of the OxBer Research Fund and the ERC.

## Recorded panels

### Governing Online Speech: AI, Transparency and Corporate Social Responsibility

- Date: June 10, 2021
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Ww-ssVx0U&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Ww-ssVx0U&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=5)

### Hate Speech and Content Moderation in the Sahel Region: Socio-Legal Implications

- Date: June 3, 2021
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctG5-a461ms&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctG5-a461ms&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=4)

### Online Hate and Artificial Intelligence: A Global Overview and Trends in the Global South

- Date: March 11, 2021
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkDfZC7OIH4&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=1&t=11s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkDfZC7OIH4&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=1&t=11s)

### Researching AI and Content Moderation: Trends, Tools and Methods

- Date: April 27, 2021
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafYaz7caGQ&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=2&t=19s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafYaz7caGQ&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=2&t=19s)

### Hate Speech and Content Moderation in the Horn of Africa: Socio-Legal Implications

- Date: May 14, 2021
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40qGq9j3n6M&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40qGq9j3n6M&list=PLq9kWPD5OUgUHwVaSYIEVJPKoV3jeYL0w&index=3)