A new Median Research Centre – MRC report presents trends in comment moderation on 69 websites from Europe and the United States, and the way in which the “commenting rules” or “community rules” in the “Less Hate, More Speech” project…
A new Median Research Centre – MRC report presents trends in comment moderation on 69 websites from Europe and the United States, and the way in which the “commenting rules” or “community rules” in the “Less Hate, More Speech” project…
The academic paper “Tolerance or Rights: The Nature and the Roots of Prejudiced and Discriminatory Attitudes Towards Minority Groups” developed by MRC researchers was selected to be presented during the Annual American Political Science Association conference. The meeting took place…
The Less Hate, More Speech project was selected by The National Authority for Scientific Research (NASR) to present the results of its communication and promotion efforts during the first period of implementation, at a seminar held on May 25, 2016…
The project has been run for over a year and a half by Median Research Centre (MRC), in partnership with the University of Bergen and Central European University in Budapest. On April 6, the MRC team introduced it to journalists, students and media…
As of today, two other websites, paginademedia.ro and blogsport.ro, will be part of the sites moderated within the research project Less Hate, More Speech, undergone by Median Research Centre (MRC). They will join the sites the project initially started with, gsp.ro and tolo.ro. Therefore, besides the moderation of…
Median Research Centre‘s Less Hate, More Speech project was among the winners of the first edition of the Hate Awards Gala, organized by ActiveWatch and Roma Center Romani Criss. The research project, which at its core is focused on a comment…
Why is it important to speak of online aggressiveness? Aggressive and instigating comments found at the end of online articles do not only affect the journalists that have written them, who develop a tendency towards self-censorship and an excessive refinement…
There are a number of arguments on account of which it is worth searching for solutions to reduce the volume of uncivilized comments on the Internet. 1. First of all, it is unlikely that those who profit from the veil…
In June 2015 the Less Hate, More Speech project was officially presented within IceeFest, the largest digital festival in Eastern Europe. Sharing the stage with New York Times and Huffington Post representatives, Cătălin Tolontan, who is volunteering in our project,…
Recently, the online show Adevărul Live featured updates from the Less Hate, More Speech research project, pertaining especially to the online comment moderation system stage that was implemented in April 2015 on a national website. Representatives of MRC and GSP.ro,…
