Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there is little consensus on approaches to mitigate it. While content moderation---either by governments or social media companies---can curb online hostility, such policies may suppress valuable as well as illicit speech and might disperse rather than reduce hate speech. As an alternative strategy, an increasing number of international and non-governmental organizations (I/NGO) are employing counterspeech to confront and reduce online hate speech.

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This event is part of the Inaugural 2022 David N. Lyon Speaker Series on "The Politics of Sex and Gender Equality in Diverse Societies".

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Kemal Goktas is a Turkish legal scholar, author and award-winning journalist who has written for Radikal, Sabah, Vatan, Milliyet, Cumhuriyet. Kemal is a former Journalist Fellow of the Reuters Institute. In 2018 he published this paper on reporting human rights violations in Turkey.

This series is an opportunity for DPIR DPhils to present their work in progress and gather feedback.

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How does representation by politicians from specific communities influence these communities’ political participation? Analyzing a natural experiment from Mexico, in which a party uses lotteries to select candidates for public office, this paper presents new insights into how representation shapes the political participation of underrepresented segments of society.

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