Thou shalt not hate: Countering Online Hate Speech

Understand

Hate content in social media is ever-increasing.

• While Facebook, Twitter, Google have attempted to take several steps to tackle the hateful content, they have mostly been unsuccessful.
• Counterspeech is seen as an effective way of tackling the online hate without any harm to the freedom of speech.
• Thus, an alternative strategy for these platforms could be to promote counterspeech as a defense against hate content.