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Australian Official Seeks Restrictions on "Hateful" Speech
September 14, 2017
The Guardian reports that, in a move that may have implications for speech on issues such as migration and security, Australia's human rights commissioner Edward Santow has pushed the country's Parliament to pass laws protecting gay people from "hateful" speech in the midst of a debate over a national referendum on same-sex marriage.
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UN Official: Sharing News Comes with Duty to Verify Accuracy
September 14, 2017
At a forum on combating "fake news" hosted by the UN Alliance of Civilizations, Maher Nasser of the UN Department of Public Information warned that users of social media networks have a duty to verify the accuracy of news stories, by researching them on "trusted sources," prior to passing them on to others.
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UNESCO: Counter Extremism Through "Empathy" Education
September 14, 2017
The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development organized a conference in New Delhi where it taught educators to focus on the inclusion of values such as "critical inquiry, mindfulness, empathy and compassion" in education systems to combat radicalization of youth and violent extremism.
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UNESCO Seeks Policies Against "Fake News"
September 13, 2017
At a recent Joint Extremism/Digital Europe Working Group Conference hosted at the European Parliament, Guy Berger of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) called on media organizations to do more to debunk "fake news" stories and pushed governments to find ways to prosecute certain purveyors of false stories.
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Editorial Cautions US on "Hate Speech" Standards
September 06, 2017
An editorial in The Washington Post asserts that, to prevent the suppression of legitimate speech, companies hosting websites must develop clear boundaries regarding when they will choose to removing sites containing "hate speech" from their platforms and cautions the US government against weighing in on such standards.
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