Less Hate, More Speech is issuing a challenge to you: how would you moderate the statements of Romanian politicians, if they were to post them in the comment sections under articles? Take a short quiz and test your online comment…
Less Hate, More Speech is issuing a challenge to you: how would you moderate the statements of Romanian politicians, if they were to post them in the comment sections under articles? Take a short quiz and test your online comment…
Test your moderator instincts on a new set of comments, selected from the hundreds of thousands checked by moderators working in the “Less Hate, More Speech” project! After you decide what you would do with each comment, you will receive…
A debate on the Less Hate, More Speech project took place on April 27, 2017. The participants included researchers from Median Research Centre (MRC), a comment moderator, representatives of the media partners (Gazeta Sporturilor and Paginademedia.ro) and of the Ministry…
The Less Hate, More Speech project set out to investigate the role that political elites and mass media can play – whether or not it is intentional – in reducing or proliferating anti-democratic and intolerant discourse among the citizens. A central component…
Less Hate: 20% of the 600,000 published comments on all 4 websites needed moderation. More Speech: 26,000 commenters interacted among themselves or with the moderators and journalists during the supervised moderation period in the project. In brief, this report presents…
At the center of the Less Hate, More Speech project is a moderation process that was implemented for 15 months on 4 websites in Romania: GSP.ro, Tolo.ro, Paginademedia.ro and Blogsport.ro. But the collaboration between researchers and journalists started way before…
Take a short quiz with a few comments inspired by real posts and see if you can put yourself in the moderators’ shoes! We selected 7 comments out of the hundreds of thousands posted during the 14 months of systematic…
One of the main goals driving this analysis was to identify and describe how various measurements were used in passed surveys to address intolerant, discriminatory and anti-democratic attitudes. This in turn could help guide and develop better or more refined…
The latest Median Research Centre – MRC report explains how comment moderation in the “Less Hate, More Speech” project worked. It describes the moderation experiments we implemented, what features were added to the comment system and what informed their design,…
In the “Less Hate, More Speech” project, moderation actually meant several experiments and interventions in the comment section, not just eliminating aggressive or intolerant content. “Less Hate” moderation began in April 2015, with the GSP.ro website, followed by Tolo.ro in…
