Susan Benesch

Susan Benesch writes about how online debate should not be outsourced to AI

Susan Benesch and Catherine Buerger use the context of fentanyl and border crossings to explain the dangers of combining facts, lies, and emotional language.

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch provides recommendations for recognizing and countering hateful online speech.

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch discusses the relationship with heated political speech and real-world violence.

Faculty Associate Susan Benesch writes about incendiary speech in political American discourse, and the rampant rise of it. "We have found that dangerous speech is uncannily…

Susan Benesch, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said when it comes to “dangerous speech ... what matters most is how…

Susan Benesch writes about how Elon Musk buying Twitter may be dangerous. “Dangerous speech forms a category because it is strikingly similar from one case to another, across…

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch writes about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and implications for content moderation and social media enforcement.

Susan Benesch says human rights law could guide social media companies to regulate hateful speech

Susan Benesch pens an op-ed about the dangers of Trump’s rhetoric.

Susan Benesch talks to The Guardian

Report features seven recommendations for Internet companies

Susan Benesch argues that when it comes to Trump's tweets, Twitter must explain clearly how or why a tweet violated its policy.

Fear is the biggest motivator in spreading 'dangerous speech' in times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, says BKC’s Susan Benesch

The pandemic has demonstrated the risks of relying on algorithms to remove harmful content.

Racist incidents are increasing while Trump promotes racism by calling coronavirus ‘the Chinese virus’

Susan Benesch discusses our complicated legal right to speak.

Susan Benesch says it isn’t normal for American presidents to suggest that their political opponents be arrested for treason

Australia has held itself up as a model for cracking down on violent extremist material online since the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. But the limits to its approach have…

Susan Benesch provides an external review of the study

What we can learn from cataloging extremely toxic speech on social media platforms and engaging with practitioners of “counterspeech”

78% of Americans say aggressive language from elected officials makes violence against targeted groups more likely. Susan Benesch shares insight for decreasing dangerous speech

Australia asks social media platforms to take responsibility

On “dangerous speech” in the context of Donald Trump’s rhetoric