SHEG Research Note: Dot-Orgs and Hate Groups
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
Research shows a dot-org domain is a weak sign of credibility for evaluating online information, and yet is widely thought to be a useful signal. This potential to mislead internet users is particularly concerning when it comes to hate groups. We sought to understand the scope and scale of this issue.
We set a sample size of n =100 websites from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC’s) list of over 10221 hate groups operating in the United States in 2018
(https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map). We sought to discover the prevalence of the dot-org domain among the various groups appearing on the SPLC list.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | November 23, 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Stanford History Education Group |
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Subjects
| Subject | civic online reasoning |
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| Subject | media literacy |
| Subject | digital literacy |
| Subject | domain |
| Subject | dot-org |
| Subject | Stanford History Education Group |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education |
| Subject | Southern Poverty Law Center |
| Subject | hate group |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vt471sv7857 |
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- Stanford History Education Group. (2019). SHEG Research Note: Dot-Orgs and Hate Groups. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/vt471sv7857
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