As hate speech online increases, so has the resistance
From international campaigns to grassroots Facebook groups, many targeted by hate speech are finding new ways to fight it.
Germany s Federal Agency for Civic Education describes hate speech as follows: When people are devalued, attacked or when hatred or violence is called for against them, this is referred to as hate speech. Additionally, hate speech is described as a generic term for the phenomenon of hostility against specific groups of people or sedition on the internet and social media platforms.
A growing number of people are affected by hate speech, whether in the form of bullying at school or work, or through sexist, racist, trans- or homophobic insults online.