Hate speech incites violence and undermines social cohesion and tolerance. The devastating effect of hatred is sadly nothing new. However, its scale and impact are nowadays amplified by new technologies of communication, to the point that hate speech – including…
With all of the resources, power and influence they possess, social media platforms could and should do more to detect hate speech, says a University of Michigan researcher. In a report from the Anti-Defamation League, Libby Hemphill, an associate research…
In most crimes it is something the victim has in their possession or control that motivates the offender to commit the crime. With hate crime it is ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be that motivates…
