Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter?
Our time is marked by a resurgence of hate that threatens to increase oppression. Social media has contributed to this by acting as a medium through which hate speech is spread. How should we model the spread of hate? This article considers two models. First, I consider a simple contagion model. In...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 788 - 813 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2023
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