Combating Online Extremism: State, Private Sector, and Civil Society Responses

The workshop seeks to explore emerging responses from politicians, think tanks, technology companies and civil society to the proliferation of extremism and hate online. The workshop will take a global, comparative approach with a view to evaluating approaches to combating online extremism, as well as its implications for governance.

In this workshop, we consider how governments, civil society and the private sector are responding to hate speech, cyber-bullying and radicalisation online. These concerns have encouraged governments across the world to develop a variety of responses to online extremism, ranging from producing counter-narratives, the empowerment of ‘moderate’ voices, and calling on social media platforms to regulate content posted by their users. While these responses have multiplied, there have been very few rigorous evaluations of their methodologies and the forms of governance that shape them.

This workshop aims to highlight research that fills this gap, providing insight into the design of effective interventions and mapping changes to security practices in response to online hate and extremism.

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