S3 E17 - Love Must Get Loud
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Season 3, Episode 17, Topic: Love Must Get Loud
Host Matthew David Vasko sets out to learn whether or not hate speech should be legal and ends up at an interesting conclusion: Love must get loud. Learn about that and a follow-up to his previous episode on this finale of season 3.
Sources & References:
LEGAL CASES: Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) | Snyder v. Phelps (2011) | Matal v. Tam (2017) | R. v. Keegstra, Canada (1990)
PHILOSOPHY: Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) | John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) | Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech (2012)
ONLINE HATE SPREAD: Mathew et al., 'Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media,' ACM Web Science (2019) — study of 341K users and 21M posts showing hateful content spreads farther, faster, and wider | Milli et al., 'Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social Media,' Cornell Tech/UC Berkeley (2023) — Twitter's algorithm selects 62% anger content vs 52% chronologically
ALGORITHMS & OUTRAGE: Frances Haugen / Facebook Papers (2021) — internal Meta documents showing 'our recommendation systems grow the problem' of extremism | Amnesty International, 'Myanmar: Facebook's Systems Promoted Violence Against Rohingya' (2022) | UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (2018)
COUNTERSPEECH RESEARCH: Alvarez-Benjumea & Winter, PNAS (2021) — empathy-based counterspeech reduces xenophobic hate speech; humor and warnings do not | Jahani et al., 'Celebrity messages reduce online hate and limit its spread' — 20-week RCT in Nigeria, 50%+ reduction in hate reposting
MIND CHANGE RESEARCH: Broockman & Kalla, 'Durably reducing transphobia,' Science (2016) | William Miller & Stephen Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing | Anthony Magnabosco, Street Epistemology
HISTORY: The King Center, thekingcenter.org — Dr. King's leadership produced more progress toward racial equality in 13 years than the previous 350 | Civil Rights Act 1964 | Voting Rights Act 1965
HATE CRIME DATA: FBI Hate Crime Statistics 2023 & 2024 | Statistics Canada 2023 | German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) 2025 report
KEY QUOTES: Justice Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California (1927) | Audre Lorde — 'It is not the responsibility of the oppressed to educate the oppressor'
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