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The ‘Troll of the Month’ feature names and shames public figures responsible for anti-religious hate speech.

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MARINE LE PEN - CHALLENGED TROLL OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY

Marine Le Pen is facing charges of circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity”, after posting three photos of violence.The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (£66,000).

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BILD - OUSTED TROLL OF THE MONTH JANUARY

German paper Bild was pushed to change a deceptive and xenophobic headline, after social media outburst accused them of fearmongering. People on Twitter, including a politician from the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDL), successfully called out Bild for fuelling racism through sensationalistic and misleading headline. 

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LÁSZLÓ TOROCZKAI: TROLL OF THE MONTH - JULY

András Léderer, a staff member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights NGO and  formerly a politician at the Free Democrats party recently filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request at the local municipality of Ásotthalom, a village on the Hungarian-Serbian border about the activities of a group of armed vigilantes, the so called “field guards”, a group of volunteers supporting the work of border guards by catching illegal border crossers.

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ABBOT METHODIUS: TROLL OF THE MONTH - FEBRUARY

A rally in Thessaloniki has recently gathered ultra-right nationalists and extremist Greek Orthodoxes, including Abbot Methodius of Mount Athos' Esfigmenou Monastery,” to demonstrate against “the instruments of Antichrist and the New World Order”

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LAURENT LOUIS: OUSTED TROLL OF THE MONTH - JANUARY

The Belgian politician’s Twitter account has been removed in January, thus definitely closing one fundamental channel of his hate speech online. Last December, Louis tweeted that Israel was behind the actions of Nazi Germany, and is now behind the terrorist acts of ISIS.

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OUSTED TROLL(S) OF THE MONTH – OCTOBER

Eight people face one-year suspended prison term after the Pest Central District Court found them guilty of defamation via Facebook against Shlomo Koves, rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation.

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