Online Hate Speech
COURAGE AGAINST HATE
This report by Facebook was an initiative with the purpose of sparking cross-sector, pan-European dialogue and action to combat hate speech and extremism. This collection of articles, which GTTO contributed to, unites European academic analysis with practitioners who are actively working on countering extremism within civil society.
STOPPING HATE: HOW TO COUNTER HATE SPEECH ON TWITTER
This guide was produced by MDI in partnership with CEIJ, Center for Independent Journalism, ICFJ, licra, and Symbiosis. It provides tips on how you should react to/counter hate speech on Twitter.
If you want to read the guide, please feel free to download it in your preferred language at the bottom of this page. The guide is available in English, French, Greek, Hungarian, and Serbian.
UNESCO STUDY: COUNTERING ONLINE HATE SPEECH
The study published by UNESCO provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it. This publication offers an analysis of the international, regional and national frameworks, with a particular emphasis on social and non-regulatory mechanisms that can help to counter the production, dissemination and impact of hateful messages online.
ONLINE HATE SPEECH: INTRODUCTION INTO MOTIVATIONAL CAUSES, EFFECTS AND REGULATORY CONTEXTS
This guide, developed under the DeTACT project, takes a look at online hate speech and the experiences of victims, perpetrators and bystanders of it. The resource also looks at effective counter-speech techniques and hate speech regulation in a range of European countries.
RESPONDING TO ‘HATE SPEECH’: COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF SIX EU COUNTRIES
This report provides a comparative overview of legal and policy responses to ‘hate speech’ in six EU countries: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. The report finds hate speech to be a significant problem across all countries.
MANIFESTATIONS OF ONLINE HATE SPEECH
This report from INACH reports on antisemitic, antiziganistic, homophobic and anti-Muslim Hate Speech.The aim of this report is to study, document and report on online hate speech in a comparative and comprehensive way; and to establish structures for a transnational complaints system for instances of cyber hate.
BEYOND THE “BIG THREE” ALTERNATIVE PLATFORMS FOR ONLINE HATE SPEECH
International studies on hate speech online have focused primarily on the three platforms considered the most influential: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. However, other networks are on the rise and young users especially lose interest in the ‘old’ platforms. . Six partner organisations provided input for a paper on the alternatives to "The Big 3" platforms.
‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association THE TWITTER STANDARDS OF HATE Report (August 2023 – August 2024)
Elon Musk’s publicised visit to Auschwitz earlier this year did next to nothing to improve the implementation of hate speech standards on Twitter/X, according to a new REPORT by the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association.
The report describes hundreds of shocking samples of extreme hate speech reported by ‘NEVER AGAIN’ to X in the last 12 months. X has refused to remove them or ignored reports.
The report includes a lengthy list of written posts, images and videos inciting hatred against minorities such as Jews, Africans, Muslims, Ukrainian refugees, and LGBT people. The contents include dehumanization, glorification of the Holocaust, calls to violence – for example shooting refugee children – as well as calls to mass murder of whole groups.