The ‘Troll of the Month’ feature names and shames public figures responsible for anti-religious hate speech.
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).
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.
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.
WORKERS UNION PRESIDENT: TROLL OF THE MONTH - JUNE
Tsermenidis is under fire for a number of antisemitic statements he made during a Union assembly on 24 June 2016.
SFR EMPLOYEES: OUSTED TROLL OF THE MONTH – MAY
Two employees of SFR, one of the main French telecommunications companies, have been suspended after making antisemitic and sexist insults against customers on Periscope.
BDS ACTIVISTS CONDEMNED FOR ANTISEMITIC EXCESSES: OUSTED TROLLS OF THE MONTH - APRIL
The Troll of the Month is an episode we choose every month to expose anti-Semites and to show the positive outcomes in the fight against antisemitism in Europe.
VICKI KIRBY: OUSTED TROLL OF THE MONTH - MARCH
Vicki Kirby, UK Labour Party member, was suspended in February for the second time, pending an investigation into a series of antisemitic tweets.
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”
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.
ALAIN SORAL: OUSTED TROLL OF THE MONTH – DECEMBER
Alain Soral, French extreme-right author of polemical essays, has been sentenced for making antisemitic insults.
Ousted Troll of the Month: Dieudonné M’bala M’bala - November
The French comedian Dieudonne has been sentenced for two months in jail by a Belgian court for making racist and antisemitic comments.
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.