Office of Film & Literature Classification Classification Office

Last year post-Aotearoa's first lockdown we chatted to Professor Paul Spoonley, Research Director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. We spoke about QAnon, hate speech and misinformation. Listen in to hear his fantastic expertise on these challenging topics.

Caitlin and Georgia speak with Shannan for Ara Taiohi and Tyler from CCS Disability Action about working with rangatahi.

We spoke to Sanjana Hattotuwa, a PhD researcher at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Otago University, about the role of social media platforms both in terms of promoting incendiary content and how some have gone on to protect and strengthen democracy.

You can find Sanjana at http://about.me/sanjanah and on Twitter @sanjanah

The office talked with Yoti, an organisation working in the online age verification world. They have created an app that gives you a safe and convenient way to prove your identity and credentials, online and in person.



https://www.yoti.com/

We asked Dr Kevin Veale from Massey University to come in and talk to us about hate speech and online harassment. At the Classification Office we often look at and classify social media content. The kind of content that comes through our door tends to be violence, sexual exploitation, hate speech, dangerous speech or a combination of all of these elements. Social media platforms make it easy to post hateful content without thinking about the consequences. Remember if you see something you know is out of line report it. If you are experiencing online harassment or abuse check out the below links for support.

Netsafe.org.nz

https://www.netsafe.org.nz/the-kit/resource-centre/

1737

https://1737.org.nz/

And here’s some links about Facebook experimenting on people:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-emotion-study-breached-ethical-guidelines-researchers-say

Pillow Fort

https://www.pillowfort.social/users/sign_in

Awhaa

https://ahwaa.org/?lang=ar

Loot Boxes.

What they are and what the risks are.