Study on hate speech: Europe’s onl • Table.Briefings

Researchers have investigated how widespread hatred and hate speech are on social media. They found insults and calls for violence, but little counter-speech.

The Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA) has looked into the phenomenon of hate speech in four language areas. Women are particularly often the target of verbal attacks.

344,132 posts on Telegram, Reddit, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter) were used by the Fundamental Rights Agency for a closer examination. The content was in Bulgarian, Swedish, Italian and German. These languages are considered less well-researched in hate speech research. The researchers also assumed that the selected language areas differed significantly both socially and in terms of regulation before the Digital Services Act came into force.

Study on hate speech: Europe’s online hate

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