Participation in European Observatory of Online Hate
The European Observatory of Online Hate is a project supported by the European Commission’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme Call: REC-AG-2020 awarded by DG Justice. Textgain together with Dare To Be Grey, Hogeschool Utrecht and PCDS will undertake a two-year investigation into and reporting on the fundamental nature of the dynamics of online hate, how hate manifests itself, the connections between the perpetrators and their influence as well as disinformation strategies.
About our contributions to the project
After Media4Change team was contacted by the coordinators of the EOOH project, two members: Media monitoring specialist Banguolė Žalnieriūnaitė and one of the Media4Change volunteers: Justas Juodženis were working for months on creating a lexicon of hate speech in Lithuanian language. Together they annotated more than 6000 words frequently used in hate speech. Currently, Media4Change media monitoring specialist has a role of an expert in this project and has access to the EOOH dashboard to research tendencies of hate speech.
