What are some of the contributing factors and effects of hate speech?
Please read through the following drivers that contribute to hate speech and dangerous speech and select those you think are most relevant to the discussion.
• Children are affected by or involved in violence at increasingly earlier ages - due to proximity to conflict, learning to hate, breakdown of positive norms & values.
• Youth feel frustration, social media offers an open platform, which can further entrench attitudes of hate.
• Lack of accountability - no reconciliation process, the power of anonymity and geographic distance all contribute to a lack of consequence for online incitement.
• Political & tribal alignments - misconceptions on cultural diversity and conflict narratives based on tribal affiliations
• Lack of policies to balance freedom of expression, ethics and privacy against curbing hate speech online
• Online reactions amplify tensions between citizens/groups offline and led to increasingly splintered communities further, including within diaspora.
• Vicious circle of increasing brutality, dangerous and aggressive speech and directed incitement moving between inaccurate reporting of the conflict to de-contextualisation in social media.
• Deliberate propaganda, including networking between members of the diaspora using social media platforms to organise campaigns of directed incitement on the ground.