Newsroom

Media coverage of our Online Safety research 2019 – present

NEWS COVERAGE

The Conversation: Nearly 70% of Premier League footballers are abused on Twitter – we used an AI to sift through millions of tweets

BBC: Cristiano Ronaldo & Harry Maguire most abused players on Twitter – report

The Times: Ofcom tells social media giants to tackle online abuse of footballers

Reuters: Ronaldo and Maguire most abused on Twitter, according to report

Sky News: Online abuse: New study reveals which footballers are target of most abuse on Twitter

The Guardian: Seven in 10 Premier League players are sent abusive tweets, study showsa

Sky News: Antisemitism, racism and white supremacist material in podcasts on Spotify, investigation finds

BBC: Why was my Tweet about Football labeled as abusive?

WSJ: AI Algorithms Get Tripped Up in Fighting Hate Speech

MIT Technology Review: AI still sucks at moderating hate speech

Bloomberg: Social Media Fails to Curb Racist Emojis Aimed at Soccer Stars

VentureBeat: Researchers find machine learning models still struggle to detect hate speech

The Telegraph: Big Tech fails to spot racist posts using emojis, study finds

WIRED: This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment

WIRED: Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech

La Marea: Zionism, boycott, border … The risks of the Government’s protocol to combat hate speech

Stanford Daily: ‘People will always disagree’: HAI researchers tackle hate speech moderators

ITV: ‘Hatemoji’: Racially abusive ’emojis’ less likely to be detected online than words, study finds

Sky News: Emojis are making it harder for tech giants to track down online abuse

VIDEOS

2022

AIUK 2022 – Launching the Online Harms Observatory

Sky News – Hours of podcasts filled with hateful speech found on Spotify

CogX 2021 – Weaknesses of AI tools for detecting online hate

CRASSH Cambridge – Understanding and Automating Counterspeech

CogX 2020 – The Alan Turing Institute: AI, Research and Regulation

Data for Policy – Understanding and countering vulnerability to health-related misinformation during COVID-19

Nuffield Foundation – What are the opportunities for using data science in policy-making?

CogX 2019 – Countering Online Hate with Advanced Computational Methods

Data Debate – AI and Fake News 

PODCASTS